Word: architecturale
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Driving Dreamer. He left behind the comfort of a house south of Rio that is itself an architectural showplace, with curves flowing gracefully into the hills above the Atlantic. But in translating Kubitschek's dream into Brasilia's buildings, Niemeyer, once an easygoing bohemian, turned into a single...
Commissioned in 1936 to design a building for Brazil's Ministry of Education, Architect Costa summoned Le Corbusier from France, surrounded "the greatest man in modern architecture" with a group of students who have since become Brazil's best. Among them: Afonso (Museum of Modern Art) Reidy, Jorge...
Though Tishman is based in New York, the firm has moved into such growing areas as Los Angeles because Tishman feels that development opportunities are about exhausted in Manhattan. "To me," says Norman Tishman, "a piece of underdeveloped property is like an uncut diamond to a jeweler. I don'...
Appalled by this razing of the nation's architectural heritage, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this month teamed up with the eleven-year-old National Trust for Historic Preservation and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to spotlight some outstanding pieces of architecture worth saving. Examples were found in almost every...
These students have been awarded degrees magna cum laude, with highest honors: Amiel Gershon Cooper, Chemistry; Ralph Frederick Baierlein, Physics; James Anthony Burke, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Douglas Campbell, Jr., English; David Bruce Haley, English; Eric Martin, Architectural Sciences; James Henry Rieger, English; Harold Marion Ross, Anthropology; Charles Ernest...