Word: architecturale
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Naturally, Orsay begins with an advantage: the huge, untapped reserves of France's government-owned 19th century art. These collections of painting and sculpture were spread very widely, throughout Paris and on loan to regional museums and government offices. Orsay has called them in and resifted them. The best-known...
The newly opened Cambridge Marriott Hotel may not continue to violate state laws governing accessibility to the handicapped, the state's Architectural Barriers Board ruled yesterday.
Prevailing fashions in architecture, being fashions, tend to change course at just the moment they become mainstream doctrine. The effect (although not the intention, usually) is to make outsiders and stylistic slow learners scramble to catch up. Thus today, as the giant architectural firms have begun routinely gussying up their...
The mid-'80s shift in the consensus among cognoscenti has just been made ^ especially clear. This is the season of "40 Under 40," architecture's cliquish, roughly once-a-decade (1941, 1966, 1976 and this year) initiation rite, in which several dozen younger Americans were declared the best and the...
The up-and-comers' neomodern bent is ironic, given who advised MacNair in selecting the final 40: Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. Grandmaster Johnson, 80, is the most notorious ex-modernist in the world; Stern, a sort of architectural Ralph Lauren, specializes in exactly the sort of direct 19th...