Word: architecturale
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"Corbu" began "sniffing out the site," as he puts it, in 1953. He chose a slope to back his monastery against, propped on pillars. Then he listened and took notes while the late Dominican patron of the arts, Pere Couturier, explained the and problems of the Dominican discipline ("Here we...
For TIME INC., publishers of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and HOUSE & HOME magazines, 1959 was a year of unprecedented growth. Its magazines registered a total circulation gain of 605,436 to 11,485,901 and, together with other TIME INC. properties, produced a record-breaking revenue of...
In time he settled down to turning out the "pristine, safe, lovely cubular things" that won him a $3,000 Rotch Traveling Fellowship and an 18-month tour of Europe. But a close look at aging modern landmarks abroad made him tear up his schedule. He began to pay more...
As an architect, Altdorfer built Regensburg's wine stalls, meat market, fortifications and slaughterhouse. In painting The Birth of Mary he exercised his architectural imagination by transferring the drama to the ambulatory of a cathedral. The soaring, wheeling and descending composition brings Bach's music irresistibly to mind...
The massive, 3½-acre octagonal tower of metal, masonry and glass planned by Wolfson has already stirred heated controversy, even though Wolfson enlisted the talents of famed Architects Pietro Belluschi and Walter Gropius to design the building. City planners complain that its huge population (25,000 workers) will strain...