Word: architected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, Joan (pronounced Jo-ahn) Miró is wide awake. He rises early in the morning, puts in a quick ten minutes of exercise, by 8 a.m. is hard at work in the white stucco studio in Majorca designed for him by Architect Jose Luis Sert, in 1956. Both the studio and the 13-room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child...
Wealthy Paupers. The house does have a few defenders. One of Pleuthner's neighbors, Architect Oscar de Bogdan, recalls that when the house was built in 1922, "it was a terrific showplace around here-one of the most authentic replicas of a 16th century English country manor." Says Dr. Margaret Archer, another neighbor: "Even now, the place looks like a collage. It has a crazy charm." Then she adds wistfully, "Everything else looks the same around here...
Pleuthner himself is no less eccentric than his home. Wheezing and bent with age, he is nonetheless chipper and determined as a bright sparrow. A practicing architect since 1906, he has some 50 lavish country residences to his credit, including his own beleaguered castle. Lately he has returned to his second vocation of artist (he exhibited in the great 1913 Armory Show in New York). Although the fire in 1963 forced him to move to a rented apartment, the house remains his studio, without running water or electricity...
That, in effect, was the goal set for the company in 1940 by its founder, Architect Richard Pleasant. Since then, however, Ballet Theater has all too frequently strayed off on a series of unrewarding paths. After Pleasant entered the U.S. Army during World War II, the company came under the direction of Impresario Sol Hurok, who attempted to re-create it as a new "Ballet Russe," with an endless parade of show boating guest stars. In the mid-'50s, Ballet Theater embarked on a dreary succession of new dances, most of which were forgotten when the curtain came down...
...naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American dolls and folk figurines from his huge collection (see color pages...