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Word: architecturales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the age of 61, Aalto remains a prickly individualist who drinks hard, works all hours of the day and night. Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PRICKLY INDIVIDUALIST: FINLAND'S AALTO | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

That fact alone makes Tokyo's spanking new National Museum of Western Art architectural news of the first magnitude, since it reaches so hard for perfection. Based on sketches by France's owl-wise, owl-grouchy Le Corbusier, the museum was completed by three Japanese architects who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: AN AIM FOR PERFECTION | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Architectural design at its height creates interior spaces that are just as exciting in themselves as the façades. To enter a magnificent building is like entering a work of sculpture and seeing it anew from within. Yet such excitement is distracting in a museum, where the works, not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: AN AIM FOR PERFECTION | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Housing starts, which gave the recovery so much of its original momentum, rose from 515,000 in the first half of 1958 to 690,000 in the first six months of this year. With the rise came a sharp upward pressure on housing costs. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM reported that the index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Momentum of Growth | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Lawgiver | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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