Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics had to go on was a generalized but nonetheless official sketch and a somewhat glamorized interpretation of it by LIFE (see cut). But it was enough to raise the hackles of conservative architects. Said the president of Manhattan's Municipal Art Society, Architect Charles C. Platt: "It seems to me simply slabs turned up and slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office...
Tropical Brazil faces special architectural problems. The sunlight is dazzling; the air steamy. To circumvent that conjunction of the elements, Niemeyer, like other young graduates, first experimented with balconies and broad windows. Then, in 1936, a new wind swept Brazilian architectural planning. Famed French Architect Le Corbusier came along with his concrete piers and the brise-soleil (i.e., sun break). Niemeyer took to Le Corbusier's modernism as readily as an earlier generation of Brazilians had taken to France's Beaux Arts styles of the Second Empire. Most notably, he helped design a new home for the Ministry...
Extremist. Architect Niemeyer is a Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...
...theater is completely rebuilt. We asked a city architect why it had been rushed when housing was so desperately short. He answered: "We wanted our people, who have endured so much, to have some happiness now and a visible pledge of more happiness to come...
...that stood out most prominently in the sun's slanting rays was the theater. On the high point of the bluff above the water, with its white-columned portico and low classical pediment, it recalled the Parthenon above Athens. The resemblance was not just physical. For what the architect told us was true. Since dialectical materialism rules out a next life, the good things of this life are the best hope the Soviet system has to offer. What their temples meant to the ancient Greeks, theaters symbolize to modern Russians. They are indeed "happiness and a pledge of more...