Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a housewarming present, the U.S. sponsored the Congress Hall's first week's program: dedication ceremony with speeches by Clare Boothe Luce and Ambassador David K. Bruce, a Julliard String Quartet concert, a performance by Dancer Martha Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was...
TAKE the Parthenon," said Manhattan Architect Marcel Breuer. "The sculpture is architectural decoration, whereas in our sculptural solutions we use completely independent forms which by some invisible, mysterious means 'jive' with the architecture." Breuer was talking to TIME Researcher Martha Peter Welch, who called on him last week...
Under Turkish rule, Constantinople's famed Christian shrines, like the great basilica of Saint Sophia, were restored and refurbished to the glory of Allah. Slim minarets rose skyward alongside rounded Byzantine domes. New architectural jewels, like the Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, sprang up to rival the old...
With increasing commissions from commercial and industrial firms and public institutions to do sculpture for a variety of business and public buildings, Moore, along with other sculptors, has got an increasing amount of work, filling his schedule for years ahead. That, too, is sculpture in the open, with figures fronting...
How to incorporate these great architectural experiences of the past in terms of today's vocabulary of stone, steel, aluminum, glass and concrete is the challenge facing today's planner-architects. As one U.S. sculptor just back from Europe put it: "Americans have to go abroad to sit...