Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rohe get only one building each (the Guggenheim Museum and the Seagram Building); Marcel Breuer's first structure (the new Whitney Museum) is only now going up; and Pier Luigi Nervi is relegated to a bus station at the north end of the island. Last week Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, one of the acknowledged deans of modern design, managed to get his foot in the door. It was for a room, some 4,350 sq. ft. of conference space, atop the new Institute of International Education. The view overlooking the United Nations gardens and the East River is good...
...department feared a forest fire and ruled it out. But Aalto professed himself to be not at all disturbed, for the final result is a room that is sophisticated without sacrificing obvious handcraftmanship. Everything is pure high-altitude Aalto. Everything, that is, but the nubby brown carpet. Here another architect had been asked for an opinion. Her name? Mrs. Aalto...
...whole continents in the days when sterling was supreme. The most influential among them is the scion of a 200-year-old banking family: George R. S. Baring, 46, third Earl of Cromer, who, as the outspoken and energetic Governor of the Bank of England, was the chief British architect of last fortnight's $3 billion rescue of the pound. At the top of the private banks are scores of modern-day Rothschilds, Schroders, Brandts, Hambros and other heirs to ancient City fortunes. Despite this strong affection for family and school ties, the City is increasingly looking outward...
...month in the northeast state of Ceara, when an army general arrested four deputies in the state legislature, accusing them of Communist subversion. Castello Branco ordered the deputies released, but the general was backed by powerful allies-chief among them War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, a prime architect of the revolution. For three days neither side budged, while the officers talked openly of a coup. Then the Ceara legislature mercifully intervened, revoking the deputies' constitutional immunity-thus making it legal for the army to arrest them...
...always been my special number," Brunette Maria Elena Torch once said, and so it has always seemed. She met Architect Edward Durell Stone on a flight to Paris on July 10, 1953, ten days later accepted his proposal. Thereafter Stone's genius shone with a special brilliance, and they called the wind that fanned the flame Maria. For her he built one of his famed grillework facades on a $250,000 Manhattan town house, "just as," she explained, "the Shah Jahan did the Taj Mahal in India for his wife." But the Taj Mahal, of course, is a tomb...