Word: architects
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Almost lost to sight in the worldwide building boom of new factories, apartment houses and skyscrapers are the new concert halls and opera houses going up to keep pace with the ever-growing music audience. In the U.S., Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full...
President of the International Congress for Modern Architecture since 1917, Sert is internationally known as a professional city planner and architect...
...Potato Chip. Once Mies had demonstrated that a chair's metal frame could be used in place of springs, Finland's Alvar Aalto showed that the same thing could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which...
...modern U.S. architecture is now dividing between the skeletal slabs on one hand and voluminous concrete-shell structures on the other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting...
...word first popularized during the 1907 trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White, meaning a temporary fit of insanity...