Word: architects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says. "But I decided against it for two reasons. I didn't want to give up the delight of not having to answer to another person, and I was worried about how my two boys would react to a stepfather." Those sons are in their 30s, one an architect and the other a painter and musician; one of them produced Morrison's first grandchild...
...number of people would make J. Paul Getty smile and architect Richard Meier cringe. Fifteen years in the making, the new Getty Center, a complex of museums, gardens, auditorium and art research institute and its uniquely manicured space dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that...
...part Amex vows that the wars have just begun. "We are by no means uncorking the champagne bottle," says Chenault, 46, Golub's heir apparent and the architect of the company's comeback in cards. "But we are very much in the game, which is a very different situation from three or four years ago." Chenault still winces at the memory of a focus group back then, when the holder of a rival card that earned free airline miles declared, "I want to go with you guys, but you guys are so stupid that you're not offering this product...
...GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, BILBAO The first great building of the 21st century has turned up a few years early. In the unspectacular Spanish Basque city of Bilbao, architect Frank Gehry has deposited a branch of New York City's Guggenheim Museum of Art that is a tribute to the power of that great contemporary idea, "Stop making sense." Beneath the cocked hats of its undulating towers, the most delightful architectural mind of our time has been everywhere at work. Without stooping to the twee historical quotation of so much postmodern design, Gehry has repudiated Modernist sanctity, symmetry and right-angled geometries...
...Getty Center Los Angeles may not be the Athens of America, but it now has its own Acropolis. With a mere $1 billion from the Getty Trust, architect Richard Meier has performed a feat of late-Modernist classicism, a complex of art research, museum and conservation facilities that sits on a hill along the San Diego Freeway, quietly emanating the notion that civilization is whatever it is that produces buildings like these...