Word: architecturale
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He joined the architectural firm of Webb andKnapp in 1948, and has run his own firm, now Pei,Cobb, Freed and Partners, since 1955. He was awheelwright fellow at Harvard in 1951.
Quite simply, Rome wasn't built in a day, Harvard Stadium's architectural resemblance to a Roman coliseum notwithstanding.
White House historian and architectural consultant William Seale has always advocated closing Pennsylvania Avenue to make an expansive President's Park, as intended by Washington's original designer, Pierre L'Enfant. Seale would put gates and fences around the entire area embracing Lafayette Park, the White House grounds and the...
This peculiar character was shared by other still-life artists in Spain, who turned their tables into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic...
Probably the best thing that can be said for the show's copious gallery of Madrid flowerpieces by Juan de Arellano and others from the late 17th century is that they are skilled exercises in a trivial genre; they descend from earlier Dutch conventions-those towering masses of tulips and...