Word: architecturale
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Like everyone else, Fox says he doesn't know what the final resolution will be, but because he believes major architectural changes are financially out of the picture (eliminating a proposal that would have turned the Yard into several four-year Houses), he says he leans right now toward a...
Benevolent Squires. Here he is in Paris, "violently smitten" with the geometrical volumes of the Hôtel de Salm, so denuded of fripperies of rococo as to promise him a new mode of architectural thought. There he is in Nîmes, entranced by the proportions of the Roman...
The most exciting flowering of Washington is at its Bicentennial best on the Mall, the vast greensward that sweeps from the new reflecting pool at the foot of Capitol Hill to the landmark pool stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Nowhere in the world is there an...
In his 58-year career as a master builder, Finland's Alvar Aalto won architectural award after award, and became perhaps his small nation's most famous figure-in effect, a national monument. When he died last week, at 78, Finland-and indeed the entire world of architecture...
Aalto built widely in Finland and Scandinavia with a few structures elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. A total individualist, he broke away from stiff neo-classicism and stark Bauhaus, and ranks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as an architectural innovator. Unlike such men...