Word: asceticism
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He came to symbolize everything the West found incomprehensible and baffling about the East: his intense, ascetic spirituality and air of otherworldly detachment; his medieval, theocratic mind-set, which drew its parallels and precedents from the Islamic world of the 7th century; the mystical certitude that he spoke in the...
Reading Lawrence's story, not as he polished it in Seven Pillars of Wisdom but as he parceled it out to friends, does not finally resolve the enigma of his character or explain his place in history. He would be easier to understand if he were simply larger than life...
Since he has completed only a dozen architectural works, Holl is best known for the dinner plates and candlesticks he designed for the upscale marketers Swid Powell. But in his buildings he has found a way out of architecture's tired to-and-fro between caricature modernism (the neurotic Rubik...
A MOMA show marks the growing influence of Steven Holl, 41, whose ascetic yet lyrical architecture points a way out of the modernism-classicism standoff.
But there are those who wonder if the shuttle's aura can survive Trump's touch. Some suggest that the ascetic aesthetic of the old shuttle rather than a glitzier image of a flying casino may be better suited to its puritanical passengers. "It's pretty much a business operation...