Word: architecturale
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A statement distributed at Saturday's ground-breaking exercises for George Gund Hall, the new Graduate School of Design headquarters, called for a "reordering of priorities" to relate architectural education more closely with the nation's urban needs.
The artifacts and accouterments of the years between the two World Wars, from jewelry to architectural decoration, are now being rediscovered in much the same fashion that Art Nouveau was a decade or so ago. The Cubist-patterned rugs and lacquered sideboards mother threw out daughter eagerly buys in thrift...
The National Commission on Urban Problems, headed by former Senator Paul Douglas, has castigated urban renewal as "a failure quite irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as...
"Our plan is intimate," he explained. "It's magical and fun-like. Architectural differences seem to be part of it, unordered and unregimented."
Rarely Empty Seats. Fosdick was eventually won over when Rockefeller's congregation agreed to form a new interdenominational church for him. The result was the 2,500 seat, $5 million Riverside Church, above the Hudson River near Columbia University. Topped by a 28-story bell tower, Riverside drew its...