Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those early Mayan archaeological discoveries (Oct. 21) look Frank Lloyd Wright inspired. Of course, no offense intended to either architect...
...knots old maid; the son a psychotically bitter, frustrated writer. The son has in turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect. All the time, amid such a fracturing of lives, people sit about, exhibiting the farcical side of family life...
...bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, Milwaukee has just built one of the country's finest examples of modern architecture put to work for civic purposes. It is a new Memorial Center, designed by Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME, July 2, 1956), combining quarters for veterans' services and a new home for the Milwaukee Art Institute in an open, dramatically cantilevered structure built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some...
...problem posed to Architect Saarinen in planning the center was far from simple. He had to design a monumental building of many uses that would at the same time be the gateway to a park and the lakefront symbol of the city. His answer was to keep the main floor open, se that a visitor entering from the upper level, off Lincoln Memorial Drive, can see through to the lake beyond, thus providing a visual link between city and lake. To give the building sweep and drama, he designed soaring, 30-ft. cantilevers for the upper stories, which house meeting...
Within, Memorial Center is designed around an open central-courtyard plaza. The main gallery is 120 ft. by 50 ft. Enough lighting fixtures have been built into the ceiling to turn the building into a blazing beacon at night, but Architect Saarinen broke with the modern tendency to seal off gallery space from outside light, left two wide glass areas so that the lake can be kept in view even while looking at pictures...