Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Evelyn's admirers was Stanford White, 47, the most prominent American architect (Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, Washington Arch. New York University's Hall of Fame) of the day. and one of its leading quail hunters. One gaudy night, while Evelyn's mother was conveniently out of town. White blackly enticed the girl-or so she later testified -to a certain address on West 24th Street, which was entered through a secret door at the rear of a toy shop;. There, she said, he showed her into a room swathed in sound-stifling draperies from ceiling...
...Editors delight in pictures of paintings with the painter named; in sculptures with the sculptor named; in articles on trials with the lawyer named; in music with the composer named; in books with the author named, etc., etc. But the poor architect . . . must, alas, take a back seat to the photographer who snaps his masterpiece...
Nivola's first exhibit of his new sand castings failed to sell. But France's famed Architect Le Corbusier, then in Manhattan working on the U.N. Secretariat, visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut sculptural form. . . Only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand." Other architects agreed, snapped up Nivola's idea to decorate their buildings with sand murals. Among them: Italy's Olivetti Co (typewriters and calculating machines), which commissioned a 15-ft.-by-70-ft. mural...
When Nivola was approached by Washington Architect Walter Marlowe to design the Four Chaplains Fountain he jumped at the chance. "Sardinians have a great and terrifying regard for the sea," he says. "Most of them, including myself, have never learned to swim...
...conference, sponsored and paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, gathered to honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Marshall, described as "the most important architect of American constitutional Law" throughout the conference...