Word: architecturale
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It's the kind of image that only an expatriate could have made, and Steinberg, before anything else, was an expatriate. When dictators in the 1930s ranted about rootless Jews, Steinberg was what they had in mind. Born near Bucharest, Romania, the son of a printer (hence an early fascination...
Exhibit number six: The Freshman Union. It was dank, dark and had antlers on the walls--imagine a final club that decided to breach its guest policy and invite 800 first-years for dinner. The old Union was admittedly more homey than the new Annenberg, but hardly an architectural triumph...
NEVER HAS AN ARCHITECTURAL BLUNDER BEEN SO BRUTAL. "EXCUSE ME, PARDON ME," IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO HEAR BEHIND YOUR BACK WHILE POINTING PERCY AT THE PORCELAIN. URINALS BELONG IN THEIR OWN SELF-CONTAINED SPACE, NOT IN THE CAUSEWAY TO THE TOILETS.
Littleton is a sleepy town, really. My friends and I used to refer to it as "Little-fun" during high school; crazy Saturday nights consisted of renting a video and sharing a pack of red licorice with a group of friends. Single family homes line the streets, the "cookie-cutter...
The annual Pritzker Prize--$100,000 plus a gold medal--is by far the most prestigious award in architecture today. It is like the Nobels for literature or for the promotion of peace, though not as hotly debated, there being no architectural equivalent to Dario Fo--still less to Rigoberta...