Word: architects
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...what he will do to it, it is what Charles Eames will do with it. In the same way that Eames has transformed the lounge chair and ottoman into a voluptuous and functional medley, he has transformed the lecture into a multi-image, multimedia environment: in 1940 Eames and architect Ecro Saarinen won first prize for designs entered in the Museum of Modern Art's Organic Furniture Competition; and at the University of Georgia and UCLA in 1953, Eames and his wife, Ray, for the first time used multi-media techniques in a public presentation...
Visiting with Charles Eames evokes a kaleidoscope of images rather than words: he defies labeling. Eames is the designer and architect, the artist and film-maker, the scientist and philosopher. Perhaps the connection is his gift as problem-solver- whether it's in designing a computer exhibit for the new IBM building or in joining a metal support to the back of a chair...
...more than canceled out by the demonic evils of Nazism. But many of those over 50, who remember the humiliation after World War I and the chaos of the Weimar Republic, maintain that Hitler's positive accomplishments outweigh the negative. The memoirs of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and wartime production czar, are still a bestseller in West Germany eight months after publication (TIME, Sept...
Opinions are mixed also on Roche's overhaul of the monumental classical Fifth Avenue façade, designed in 1896 by Richard Morris Hunt, the leading U.S. architect of his time. Roche has got rid of the wooden outhouse-like box added to cut down drafts at the main entrance, and is providing a spacious, three-tiered staircase flanked on both sides by formal plazas and a serried row of fountains set in reflecting pools. More controversial is his plan to replace Hunt's grand staircase inside with two escalators and a passageway in order to increase...
Died. Richard Neutra, 78, architect of international renown for nearly half a century; of a heart attack; in Wuppertal, Germany. Born and trained in Vienna, Neutra emigrated in 1923 to the U.S., where he studied under Frank Lloyd Wright before moving to California. Like Wright, he rejected the stern horizontals and verticals of the then popular International style, instead opted for odd angles, diagonal roofs, warm-colored woods and stones. Most of his work was done on the West Coast, which he graced with literally hundreds of schools, hospitals and private homes. As he once...