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...schoolhouse-style history lesson sans the rhyming cartoons: the Carpenter Center, designed to be an artwork unto itself, is the brainchild of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier—a self-created title meaning “the rooster” in French. Josep Sert, Spanish architect and the Design School dean at the time, commissioned Le Corbusier (affectionately called ‘Corbu’) to create the Carpenter Center despite reluctance from the Harvard administration. An international meeting of artistic minds, to say the least...
...Chattanooga Springs” is one of the most reflective and haunting pieces in the show. Set to the Decemberists’ “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect,” it uses the setting of classic small-town America to comment on the corruption of modernity. Through the loss of its characters’ innocence—a boy takes a swig of alcohol for the first time, another takes the orange that a blind girl is carefully peeling and bites into it almost maliciously—the piece becomes a bittersweet expression of regret...
Mixing glass with cement may seem strange, but that is what Aron Losonczi, a Hungarian architect, has done to create a transparent concrete called LiTraCon. Glass in the form of fiber optics allows light to filter through the material, creating a surreal effect. Available in sheets 2 in. or more wide, LiTraCon is as strong as regular concrete and can be used for walls, flooring or sculpture. It is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington through...
...flashy iconoclasts, a subtle traditionalist like Taniguchi may be the true radical. Indeed, his final presentation in 1997 to MOMA's seven-member Architect Selection Committee was so low-tech?so unlike anything seen in architectural pitches in decades?that Riley remembers it as a near disaster. "Taniguchi is not what you'd call trained in the art of salesmanship," he says. "There were no special effects, no flip-books, no PowerPoint presentations. What you had was a rather shy man talking about his philosophy of architecture. It was probably one of the worst presentations I've seen...
Advocates of partly privatized Social Security point to a system of personal savings accounts in Chile that is widely regarded as a success. In contrast to Britain's plan, Chile's is compulsory and presents workers with only a handful of conservative, income-oriented investment options. The architect of Chile's plan, Jos Piera, is now a co-chairman of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice and has conferred with Bush on the subject...