Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Boston's new $21.6 million City Hall was designed in 1962, it has been the focus of controversy. Most architecture critics consider it one of the great buildings of the 1960s, a richly textured, concrete-and-brick structure that reflects the influence of the late architect Le Corbusier and, in its emphatic use of raw concrete, of the contemporary English "Brutalists" as well. But to most citizens, it looked too for-tresslike for comfort...
Talented Assistants. Udall has gathered an impressive group of men to assist Overview. Lawrence Halprin, a distinguished San Francisco architect and planner, will be chairman of the executive committee; Henry L. Kimelman, former assistant to Udall at Interior, will be president and treasurer. A group of 25 advisers will assist in developing Overview concepts, notably Architect I. M. Pei, Moshe Safdie, designer of "Habitat" at Canada's Expo 67, and Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia's extremely able city planner...
Designed by Architect Lina Bo (who is Director Bardi's ex-wife), the building is in effect a box suspended from four giant concrete piles spanned by huge concrete beams. This construction allows for column-free interiors where the paintings are supported in airy space on what amounts to a series of transparent plastic easels...
Twos and Lessons. The petite, blue-eyed architect of these events hopes that her myths "are speaking out against imposed authority, against ruts and for change." At 48, she no longer dances regularly, but is busily experimenting with new variations of her myth form. So far she has concocted something called "rituals" (which are, in effect, mini-myths) and "twos" (which require participants to act as couples throughout). Next month, at Los Angeles' Music Center, she will stage her most ambitious undertaking to date: a Watts myth. "It will not be a black-white confrontation," she says, "but rather...
Died. Welton Becket, 66, master architect whose clean, functional structures grace five continents; of congestive heart failure; in Los Angeles. Becket's eclectic approach lacked the individuality of a Mies van der Rohe or a Frank Lloyd Wright. "We are trying to solve the client's problems, and it is out of the solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans...