Word: architecturale
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Bastion for Books. In Boston, the problem was the city's 72-year-old Public Library, a stately Italian Renaissance-style palazzo designed by Charles McKim, senior partner of McKim, Mead & White, which presides augustly over Copley Square. So highly is the design regarded in the architectural profession that...
Sloping Earth Mound. In Manhattan, the problem was where to relocate the police stables, riding school and the indoor polo field once used by the elite socialites of National Guard Squadron A, since their former quarters in the 94th Street Armory were torn down to make way for a new...
Mural painting, Siqueiros believes, is a special art that demands a totally different kind of visual logic than portraiture. For him, it is "architectural art, active painting for the active spectator." Since the viewer moves as he looks at the mural, the traditional fixed Renaissance perspective will not do. Instead...
A combined major in Architectural Sciences and Visual Studies has been proposed to the Faculty by the Committee on the Practice of Visual Arts.
The combined major would enable architectural science students to take courses in light, color, space, volume, movement, and visual communication, and count them toward concentration requirements.