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Beverly Hills has known more than a bit of architectural ghastliness in its day, but a new record may be in the process of being set. The imminent potential titleholder is Saudi Arabian Sheik Mohammad al-Fassi, 23, who spent $2.4 million to purchase a sprawling, 38-room quasi-Palladian...
In fact, the influence went a good deal deeper than that, for Steinberg's later drawings would display an exceedingly refined sense of architectural convention, of the parodies of style learned by precision rendering: the sharp, etched shadows and intricately reasoned-out facades of his dream skyscrapers on the American...
The Exotic Bird series, in preparation by 1975, pushed further in that direction. The odd titles, which sound like surrealist whimsy- Mysterious bird of Ulieta, or, in a sardonic little pun, Steller 's albatross- were birds' names picked from an ornithological textbook. The paintings court vulgarity every inch...
Fred Schwartz, a staff member, said yesterday, "We felt that the architectural world needed a forum to discuss issues pertinent to architecture, with emphasis on ideas, not personalities."
Each issue will focus on a single architectural theme. The first issue, called "Beyond the Modern Movement," will contain articles, interviews, photo essays and book reviews dealing with the post-modernist movement in architecture.