Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, week after week, TIME has reported the facts and the meaning of events of lasting importance in politics, science, economics, religion and the arts. In the arts this week, TIME focuses on the worldwide works of Architect Edward D. Stone (see COVER), whose U.S. Pavilion will be the showcase for the U.S. at the Brussels World's Fair...
Michelangelo and built by famed Architect Bartolomeo Ammannati in 1569, the "bridge of the beautiful curve" had enchanted generations of Florentines with its unobtrusive elegance, its "mysterious arches" that followed no known geometric curve or architectural formula. "Away from Florence," said famed Art Historian Bernard Berenson, "this was always the image which came to my mind...
...steel-reinforced frame standing out as part of the decor. There are no buttress-type supports, and the sharp-sloping walls, of interlaced, precast concrete panels, are embedded at midsection and tail with 20,000 inch-thick, stained-glass chunks. It is the first church designed by Skyscraper Architect Wallace K. Harrison (U.N. Building, Rockefeller Center...
...advise him in the amount of glass that could be used, the architect called in British Structural Engineer Felix Samuely, and together the team produced a vast, stunning edifice in the form of a fish. Though not fashioned on such a preconception ("This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which...
Died. Air Force Brigadier General James W. McCauley, 57, vice commander of the Eastern Air Defense Force, architect of air warning systems, World War II commander of the 70th Fighter Wing (Europe); of a heart attack; at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh...