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DIED. PHILIP JOHNSON, 98, one of America's most innovative architects; in New Canaan, Connecticut. In the 1930s, Johnson helped introduce America to the European glass-and-steel Modernism that would come to dominate its skylines, and developed seminal works of the style such as the Seagram Building and his...
To retrace a thousand years of Turkish culture and a civilization stretching from Central Asia to the Balkans, one need only step inside London's Royal Academy of Arts. "Turks," the institute's latest extravaganza (through April 12), draws visitors into a souk of dimly lit, treasure-filled galleries. Following...
DIED. PHILIP JOHNSON, 98; in New Canaan, Conn. One of the nation's best-known architects and architectural tastemakers, he was also one of the great American enthusiasts. As co-organizer of the pivotal 1932 International Style exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, he introduced the...
Inside the Beltway, Rumsfeld's spying efforts--the Pentagon last week publicly acknowledged that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is sending out special clandestine teams--seem to critics like a power grab. But the Defense Department says its agents can deliver intelligence on military targets that's finer-grained than...
"It twists through itself in such a way that inside becomes outside," says Eisenman. "We were looking at that building as a frame for looking at the city, a three-dimensional way of looking." Eisenman's unbuilt design has continued to resonate in architectural circles. Earlier this year a freshly...