Word: architecturale
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Napoleon III had a taste for ostentation. On the ceiling of his gilded reception room in the Louvre is a fresco of the goateed sovereign himself, sitting on his throne and surrounded by puffy clouds and horn-blowing cherubs. . Flying toward him are two figures brandishing architectural plans and a...
Last, it will "carry" well, because Lichtenstein is a master of elision and compression -- and this is why his paintings manage, against all the architectural odds, to defeat Frank Lloyd Wright's hostility to any picture unlucky enough to fetch up in the Guggenheim. The one thing it will not...
The Link connects two science buildings, Mallinckrodt and Hoffman, and house offices and high-tech laboratories. It links two architectural eras and two related departments. A better reporter might subject the building to a hard-nosed critique, but this one, dear readers, treats it as a structure worthy of reverence...
In addition to portraiture, architectural sketches are another major subdivision of the genre of drawing. Featured in this exhibition are two works by Preston Scott Cohen, an artist who earned his master's degree at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and is now an assistant professor of architecture there...
For instance, energy-inefficient open space provides more room to move than the smaller rooms of most of the older Harvard buildings. The Mather tower may be "large, harsh and fundamental," according to Architectural History, but it also provides its residents with single rooms, a privilege denied to many undergraduates...