Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild animal heads will provide a setting for the presentation of a graduate architectural thesis in Robinson Hall today. John R. Arnold 4G, left above, and Abraham Rogatnick '46, on the right, have been working for five months on a new design for the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.
Every house was built to look exactly like the others. They are designed in the same architectural style and contain exactly the same floor space, down to the square foot. Each contains a large lounge, a meeting room, a kitchenette, and a lavatory, but no living or dining facilities.
A Sandwich on End? The U.N. buildings have roused the liveliest architectural debate in years. Some architectural critics have called the Secretariat everything from a "magnified radio console" to "a sandwich on end." Old Revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright snorted that the design is mere "skyscraperism-a sinister emblem for world...
The one clear genius in the advisory group is France's cranky Le Corbusier, long a major architectural prophet. In 1936, he helped Brazil's fiery Oscar Niemeyer design a government building (see cut) which obviously served as an important U.N. source. Niemeyer calls his French collaborator "the...
Mass Experimenters. The greatest architectural experimenters of all were the builders of modern houses. In the '20s and '30s, most modern houses were little more than white plastered blocks with flat roofs, glass-brick walls and skillfully built-in ugliness. Today, modern houses from Maine to Florida and...