Word: architecturale
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For two decades, however, an avant-garde of populist architectural historians has been looking at the strip and its larger-than-life iconography without conventional middlebrow contempt. The movement's manifesto is Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Robert Venturi's examination of crowd-pleasing architectural symbolism and buildings designed primarily...
Now, just as the 40-year emergence of the strip seems complete, a pair of books renews the scholarly pursuit. Philip Langdon's Orange Roofs, Golden Arches (Knopf; $30) is an exhaustive social history of chain restaurants. Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture (Chronicle Books; $12.95) is a more polemical and...
The department was established in 1968 through a merger of the Department of Architectural Sciences and a then fledgling program in the visual arts. But many feel that the department has not received the recognition and respect it deserves from University Hall administrators. "The University doesn't take [VES] seriously...
That law required the University to embark on a three-year transition plan that would bring it into compliance. Following the government order, each building was surveyed by a specially appointed planning committee. Surveyors examined each building with architectural plans in hand, accompanied by a student in a wheelchair.
Bohm practiced all the post-modernist tenets long before they were preached, yet his buildings provide none of the easy reassurance of neat taxonomy. His work has evolved continually, but not in response to shifts in fashion or doctrine. Like Finland's Alvar Aalto, Bohm invented his own humane, smart...