Word: architecturale
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Minoru Yamasaki, renowned Detroit architect, traces his architectural philosophy to two distant cultures--Renaissance Italy and his father's native Japan. Born in Seattle the son of a shoe salesman, Yamasaki drew much of his inspiration from a trip to Japan.
Died. Louis Skidmore, 65, co-founder (with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Owings) of the U.S.'s most uncompromisingly modern architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long...
This sudden architectural flowering is only an outward manifestation of the spirit of the world's richest and most incredible city-a clangorous concatenation of wealth and squalor, the crowded island that is a center of culture and a hotbed of crime, a place where everything is for sale...
∙DOWN TOWN. The time is long gone when the Flatiron Building was an architectural astonishment, and when the Woolworth Building held sway as the tallest in the world, but even the old soil that was the birthplace of the skyscraper has sprouted new towers. The area received a massive...
When Architect Bertrand Goldberg tried to explain this concept to his mother-in-law, she replied: "That's simple. It's what we used to call living above the store." The reasons for round buildings are as varied as their purposes. In some, roundness has been dictated by...