Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The bridge, to be erected at the expense of the Metropolitan District Commission, is now being designed by the Brask Engineering Company of Boston. McKim, Meade and White, a New York firm, is serving as architectural consultant on the project.
Many of the younger Latin American architects finish off their studies at U.S. universities, but so far, U.S. influence shows up chiefly in technical details like plumbing and elevators, in living-space layouts and the general addiction to the skyscraper principle. Main inspiration for Latin America's new architectural forms...
The Leaders. Brazil started early, and, thanks to booming São Paulo (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952), has the greatest number of distinguished buildings. But in recent years other countries have made giant strides. Historian Hitchcock labels Mexico's University City (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) "the most spectacular extra-urban architectural...
But why be satisfied with the modest architectural glories of 1874, or even with imitation Gothic? With a little imagination and more funds the true splendors of the Middle Ages could be recalled. The glare of electric lights should be replaced by the romantic and less expensive flicker of torches...
Although skillfully executed, Sallie Bingham's story about a devout Roman Catholic practising Christian Science somehow lacks interest. The Advocate's fragments of Professor Whitman's translation of The Alcestis, with their alliteration and charming metre, seem very well done. Aside from this, however, this issue's poetry is unexciting...