Word: architected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quite a smashing story on Nat Owings and U.S. architecture. But how can you present a survey of the latter without showing a single building by Louis Kahn? He may well be the most influential U.S. architect since World...
...Architect Nathaniel Owings states, "architecture has always been the mirror image of a civilization," your cover article [Aug. 2] exemplifies the disturbing preoccupation with monumentality that exists in our society. Architecture as the molding of a physical environment can make no significant changes in how human beings live unless it is linked with a change in the social, political and economic environments. The major portion of the architecture you show expresses the "needs, priorities, aspirations" of the corporation, the industrial megalith and a national state of mind that is more interested in the economics of production and performance than...
...devised dozens of ingenious schemes to finance France's war with Spain, and when he decided to build himself a château on a tract of land that he owned halfway between Paris and Fontainebleau, he spared no expense. He summoned Louis Le Vau, the leading architect of the day, Charles Le Brun, a painter and interior decorator, and a landscape designer named André Le Nôtre. A special workshop with Flemish artisans was set up nearby at Maincy to execute Le Brun's tapestry designs. The chateau's 105 rooms were furnished with...
...spot to improve the Mall, Owings also rides herd on the committee to redesign Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol ? Washington's "grand axis" in Pierre L'Enfant's original scheme. Appointed to the committee by John F. Kennedy in 1962, the architect has moved his bulldozer capabilities into high gear, taking every available scrap of power "on the theory that if I was not supposed to have it, someone would tell me." President Johnson helped by appointing eight Cabinet members to sit in on the committee. As a result, plans are coordinated...
...distance, playing joyfully with the sight lines of Renaissance perspective. The Larry Aldrich Museum in Connecticut specially commissioned his 100-ft.-long yellow piece for its greensward, and Manhattan's Whitney proudly hangs the 23-ft.-long Tenerife in its lobby. Thanks to his training as an architect, Grosvenor's work is not only handsome but portable - indeed, some times floatable. A swooping, 40-ft.-long black T, recently seen at The Hague's Gemeentemuseum, has been taken apart and stored in a warehouse (the exhibition of which it was a part was supposed to travel...