Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver and as far north as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan." Last week Phoenix proudly opened its brand-new, $500,000 Museum of Art, housing a collection of art valued at $2,600,000 in a handsome, low-lying, stuccoed masonry, glass and aluminum structure on North Central Avenue, designed by Architect Alden Dow. Along with the adjacent Little Theater and Public Library, the new museum now makes Phoenix a center of culture in the desert...
...University has dramatized the importance it attaches to the new Visual Arts Center in the most effective way possible by choosing Le Corbusier as its architect. One can expect with certainty that the new building will be an original and stimulating creation, a contrast to some of the more recent local construction...
...famed Swiss-born architect undoubtedly was influenced in his decision to accept the invitation by the special purpose and nature of the building, as well as by the presence here of Dean Sert, without whose efforts Le Corbusier's acceptance is inconceivable. The Center, as Le Corbusier remarked, "stands for everything I have worked for in my life...
Unique in its field, the new building is as notable as the choice of architect. It will fill an outstanding gap in the present curriculum, alleviating the almost total neglect of the non-verbal creative processes in the College...
Although final details will be left to the discretion of the architect, the center, located on Quincy St., between Fogg Art Museum and the Faculty Club, is expected to be three stories high...