Word: architecturale
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Like all living organisms, cities are constantly changing. One American city that seems to manage technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses...
As the least orthodox member of the East bloc, Hungary was the natural starting point for Thatcher's diplomatic opening. From the moment her Royal Air Force VC-10 touched down in Budapest, the Prime Minister sought to find and build on shared moments in history to strengthen the...
Museums are now civic centers for the celebration of art, rather than simply treasuries of the past. Increasingly they are offering concerts, film programs, lectures, children's activities and education programs that reach far out into the community. They also house restaurants and, of late, the most booming branch...
Some of the buildings were ego trips that overpowered the art they were to shelter and display, among them Frank Lloyd Wright's dizzying Guggenheim Museum (1959) and Marcel Breuer's brutal Whitney Museum of American Art (1966), both in New York City. Philip Johnson's Sheldon...
Says Barnes: "We wanted the visitor to remember painting in space, sculpture against sky and a sense of continuous flow, a sense of going somewhere." Barnes, 68, studied with Bauhaus Leaders Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard, and has kept faith with their nononsense, functionalist International Style. His new...