Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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. . . The ziggurat served remarkably well its purpose of being a man-made hill on a marshy, level plain, from which the astronomer-priest made his observations. Today's architectural "wedding-cake" in its own stead serves with keen acuteness the need of providing today's businessman with the...
In designing the Center, the architects used simplicity, utility, and maximum comfort as the basis for their plans. The "functional" approach to design associated with Gropius in international architectural circles was effectively employed to bring needs and costs together.
In designing the Center, the architects used simplicity, utility, and maximum comfort as the basis for their plans. The "functional" approach to design associated with Gropius in international architectural circles was effectively employed to bring needs and costs together.
TIME quotes the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM . . . [which] is right in saying that simplicity is important. But there is more confusion than simplicity in the churches of Mackie & Kamrath, Raymond & Rado, and the Saarinens designs.
By what churchly or architectural authority does the FORUM writer decide that wild and different design is an "advance" in accomplishing the function of church (exterior) design? The church is a continuing institution. Most churches (99% of them) are not eager to express in their design aberrations of the current...