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...would have expected. Parisians think the building is too ... Parisian. Critics have complained that it is not bold and Californian enough. Gehry "has abandoned a bit of his wild, spontaneous quality in order to cater to a Parisian norm," charges Francois Chaslin, editor of the influential monthly Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. "The result is more ordinary, less powerful than his other buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESIGN: An American in Paris | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...Bobby's political hosts scored more points with their constituents close at hand than New York's junior Senator did with his far away. He spent 70 minutes with De Gaulle, and even if he only said, "Bonjour, Monsieur le Président, il fait froid aujourd'hui," the fact of the meeting, as Marshall McLuhan might observe, was more significant than its content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: Kennedysmo on the Road | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...taking things a bit far to offer a Levitt house [Dec. 10] as a laudable U.S. export. As a sample of informed architectural opinion in France, where Levitt houses are now being built, I quote the words of L' Architecture D'Aujourd'hui: "Here now, recovered from America, is the famous prewar suburban villa, epitomizing bad taste, obsolescence, and the absence of any architectural quality whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viet Nam Situation | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...Indo-China. They can still be heard in Hanoi, as well as in New York, Dakar or any place where hypochondriacs have no intention of curing themselves of that bittersweet nostalgia known as the Maladie de Paris. But his verses are also published in the prestigious Poetes d'Aujourd'hui series alongside Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Valery, and his music is among the best now being written for French song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Malady of Paris | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...hall, he tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Japanese Architect | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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