Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London ring without any immediate profits, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government did not designate any new towns in England until a few years ago. Now profits from increased land values in the London ring, together with the development of the town center concept by a prominent architect, has led to the designation of another ten towns...
Died. Clement R. Attlee, 84, architect of the modern welfare state in Britain; of pneumonia; in London (see THE WORLD...
...architect's drafting boards, he made a drawing of the box, enlarged the dimensions to 2 ft. by 3 ft. by 2 ft., took it into the Industrial Welding Co. in Newark, whose sign "You specify it; we fabricate it" he had seen while driving to and from his home in South Orange, N.J. "We were a little bit surprised at first," says William Schmidt, the welding company's president. "I wondered, is this guy a kook...
Museum staged its "Primary Structures" show, with Free Ride in its entry court. Minimal art was officially launched-and so was Tony Smith. As a movement, minimal art seemed out to prove to the hilt Architect Mies van der Rohe's dictum: less is more. Many of the objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault...
...University, which Tony hated. He came home, bought a bookstore, studied at the Art Students League by night and worked in the factory by day. In 1937, he moved to Chicago to study at the New Bauhaus, found it "awful." After a semester, he drifted into an apprenticeship with Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, traveling from project to project as "clerk of the works." "Wright," he now believes, "kind of brought me home. I discovered myself as a person...