Word: architecturale
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But Lippmann had not gone over to the Republicans. He was simply displaying once again his distrust of any grand scheme whose success depended on measures he considered oppressive. "The Good Society has no architectural design," he wrote in 1937. "There are no blueprints." Lippmann's refusal to interpret...
Nowadays the great man's studio has been replaced by a more cooperative concept of design, both in Richardson's own firm and in the architectural world in general. Most atelier firms--even in Richardson's day--would fall apart after the director died, but Richardson's survived, first as...
Some large architectural firms have slashed their staffs by 70%. Says Atlanta Architect John Portman: "I think there are more architects out of work now than at any other time since the Depression." That goes for real estate brokers too. Complains James Williams, head of a Virginia construction company'...
Kitchen No. 2 (Geoffrey and Eva's) is a blueprint of architectural chic, but its sanitary appointments compare unfavorably with those of the Black Hole of Calcutta. When Jane sees Eva with her head in the oven, she assumes that Eva is cleaning the stove. Not so. While Jane...
Nonetheless, the architects endowed Harvard with a veritable firmament of bannisters. At the top of the list is Sever Hall, already renowned for another architectural idiosyncrasy--the whispering arch. The glorious wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to...