Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elegant Simplicity. England in the 18th century was caught up in the throes of a classical revival. The digs at lava-overlaid Herculaneum in Italy were uncovering arts of antiquity that the world was seeing for the first time. Architect Robert Adam was recapturing the glories of Greece and Rome in his neoclassic columns and pediments. Wedgwood, too, plunked for the neoclassic against rococo excesses, writing in 1769: "Elegant simplicity-I shall more than ever make that idea a leading principle." He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware. Then...
...willing to sacrifice a part of his own backyard for the sake of more spacious community facilities? Will enough companies move out of the big cities into the New Town's industrial parks? For indications of how the future will go, the New Town most closely watched by architects and developers alike is Reston, Va. It is probably the farthest along, and architects agree that it is superbly designed. Says Architect Philip Johnson: "Reston is the most advanced planning in housing today...
...into the industrial park, and another dozen or so are negotiating for space. The 14-story apartment building, which has not even been topped off, already has a waiting list for occupancy, and 78 of the 270 town houses and detached homes nearing completion have been sold. Says Planner-Architect Victor Gruen, who has designed eight New Towns himself: "Reston is the most courageous effort toward the building of a New Town yet undertaken. It is my fervent hope, and I am sure all progressive architects and planners share this hope, that the New Town of Reston will succeed...
...damn bit," says Dillingham. "We're just as free as we ever were. It's been a happy partnership." Adds College Secretary Ben Light: "The first time we went to present an application we took our lawyer with us. Since then he's stayed home." Says Architect Robert B. Tallman: "They check the engineering and the financing details, but I can't think of any major engineering or architectural feature they've suggested." Insists English Professor John Harcourt: "It's been an unmitigated blessing...
...KIMONO MIND by Bernard Rudofsky. 283 pages. Doubleday. $5.95. "What shall we make of the Japanese-at once geniuses and copycats, aesthetes and vulgarians," whose "politeness is as exquisite as their rudeness, their wisdom often indistinguishable from stupidity?" Author Rudofsky, an architect, designer and museum director, spent two years searching for an answer to his own question. He did not quite find one, and his route took him past many of the familiar inscrutabilities of an island where the kimono is dismembered before laundering, where the men wear long underwear in summer and in winter peel off their overcoats...