Word: architecturale
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The Paris World's Fair of 1889 produced another herald of modern architectural engineering, Gustave Eiffel's 1,010-ft. tower. Except for the first Ferris wheel, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 did not really advance structural engineering. But it was a dream...
YOU DON'T HAVE to take Fine Arts 175 a to understand the basic qualities of Boston City Hall. Anyone who passes that behemoth across the street from Fanueil Hall can tell. It's big, overbearing, and perfectly expressive of the impersonality and arrogance of modern government. Someone not up...
Roche heads one of the most successful U.S. architectural firms, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates (Dinkeloo died last summer). Among the firm's acclaimed buildings are the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City, the new buildings of Deere & Co. in Moline, 111., and the additions to New York...
Roche, lanky, Dublin-born and taciturn, shrugs off all discussion of style, let alone postmodernism. A spreading architectural fashion, postmodernism seeks to reconnect functional glass-box modern with historic architecture. Says Roche: "I don't see history as an issue. I never lost sight of it. At a time...
Despite the current building slump, many church architects are very busy. Judith A. Miller, administrative assistant of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, a professional association of theologians and designers of religious institutions, points out, "They are designing small buildings on small budgets. Church and synagogue design is...