Word: architecturee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Stadium was erected in 1903 under the direction of Lewis F. Johnson, a member of the civil engineering department at Harvard, Ira Hollis, a faculty member and Charles F. McKim of the architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White. It was one of the first poured-in-place, reinforced...
In philosophy, the pragmatic, linguistic and analytical directions taken in the early part of our century are being replaced by the old-fashioned philosophical questions of how to live. Universities that only 15 years ago were promoting a do-it-yourself education for undergraduates are lunging back to the basic...
Meanwhile, as static conquest of the air, the skyscraper multiplied the site, extruding a patch of earth into a stack of pure property: the abstract, universal sign of capitalism. The standardization of its floors invoked the image of the machine, like the use of bodies as mechanical parts in Busby...
The imagery of this "architecture of joy" is one of clean impaction and ecstatic reaching toward the light; not even the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, made as much of solar disks, sunrays and other bursts of radiance as deco America. As the Utopian form to end all...
The big view as one enters is the avenue, plunging down the main axis and flanked on either side by raised terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La...