Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement...
"Similarly, the moderns were 100% correct in maintaining that crenellations and lancets were out of place on power stations." Where the moderns stumbled was in thinking that homes and churches can have their "function" worked out with all the architectural austerity of a powerhouse or railroad station.
If the theatre people--on the undergraduate, faculty, and alumni levels--can back up their architectural plans with a financial program, Harvard drama may yet emerge from the Victorian gloom of Sanders and the chilling courtyard of Fogg into a newer, more comfortable arena.
The slab-sided U.N. Secretariat building in Manhattan has caused more controversy than any other skyscraper in Manhattan's jagged skyline. Distinguished architects like Richard Neutra have hailed it as a great architectural achievement. Other people have referred to it scornfully as "a sandwich on edge." Last week Author...
Last week the prizewinning design and four runners-up were on display in London. They were the pick of 219 entries ranging from grandiose synthetic Gothic to slick, engine-room modern and including one plan for a completely underground job. Most of the designs brought groans and boos from experts...