Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graduate School of Design will sponsor a seminar tonight at 8:30 in Hunt Hall, at which a sculptor, painter, art critic, architectural historian, and architect will discuss. "The Visual Arts: Their Relationships...
Next morning Douglas MacArthur and his wife motored to MacArthur Park for the dedication of a war memorial that includes a statue of the general and a pool containing replicas of the islands he conquered in the Pacific. He was pleased and genial, but when a local architect rushed up to him at the dedication ceremonies and burbled, "I'm going to wish you a happy birthday as I want you to wish me one, because today is my birthday, too." General MacArthur looked at him, through him and away from...
...sent to Harvard, only one flunked out, three are now in the college. Of the graduates, five won master's degrees, three are M.D.s, three have Ph.D.s, two have LL.B.s. One owns a chemical company; one is a noted architect; another became secretary of the Law Society of Massachusetts; and two more-Charles Silin, of Tulane University, and Samuel Levine, a top heart specialist (TIME, Dec. 6)-are professors. Said Director John Munro of the Harvard Financial Aid Office: "No foundation or scholarship that I know can boast a better performance than that...
Dali originally entitled the work Corpus hipercubus (Hypercubic Body), explains that his painting is based on "the harmonious division of a specific golden rectangle" and on the studies of the cube by the 16th century Spanish Architect Juan de Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good window display. A luminous figure of a beardless Christ, face averted, floats before a dull gold cross, dramatically spotlighted against a dark sky. Floating with fine structural irrelevancy before the figure are four of Dali's small, mystic cubes, "the most perfect of geometric bodies." Dali has painted...
Communist Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev, whose monitory voice is heard more loudly these days, last week condemned the wasteful skyscrapers, some of which, he said, looked like churches. Said Khrushchev: "The architect needs a beautiful silhouette, but the people want apartments. Architects must learn to count money." Khrushchev ordered Soviet architects, under pain of punishment, to launch a mass-construction housing program based on simple standardized designs. To speed up building, he detailed a shock brigade of 100,000 "volunteer" Communist youths to work in plants making prefab reinforced construction parts. "Everything that can be replaced by concrete," ordered...