Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which will make up a housing development for millionaires on the slopes of the Maritime Alps towering above the beaches of the French Riviera. The designer of all these houses at Castellaras-le-Neuf (New Castellaras) is a razor-tongued, 62-year-old French architect who scorns higher education, the construction industry, straight lines, and almost everything about architecture...
...Italians-giddy with romantic tales of the Argentine pampas-were hurrying across the Atlantic. In the mid-1800s, some 200 Italian families set up a silk-spinning industry in Chaco province; later they began a cotton industry. When Argentina constructed a new Congress building, it was an Italian architect who designed it, an Italian company that built it. And who became the incarnation of the Argentine tango and Argentine Gaucho? None other than the handsome young Italian boy Rudolph Valentino...
Instead of picking one official architect-such as James Gamble Rogers, who weighted the campus down with his Girder Gothic of the late 1920s and '30s, Yale turned to a number of the most lustrous and far-out contemporary master builders: Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. They adhered to no single style, only to the modern mood, which freely explores how steel, glass and reinforced concrete can most beautifully be bent to shelter man. Their stunning results have made Yale more of a laboratory than a museum...
...next architect to catch Griswold's eye was the late Eero Saarinen, Yale '34. Commissioned to do simply a hockey rink, Saarinen achieved a daring structure whose wooden roof is slung from a single humpbacked reinforced concrete spine, so that inside there are no pillars to block the view. Saarinen spent far more than the money that had been budgeted for the project, but the hockey rink so pleased critics and trustees alike that Saarinen subsequently was put to drawing up a master development plan for Yale. Along the line he won a commission close...
...design pyrotechnics. For the city of New Haven, which like Yale is astir with architectural activity, he has put up a parking garage that stretches for two entire blocks, and is probably the world's most esthetic place to stack automobiles. Most recently he has been coordinating architect for Boston's radical new Massachusetts Government Center...