Word: belluschi
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...color spreads we have directed attention to the best works of such gifted contemporaries as Mies van der Rohe, Breuer, Gropius, Saarinen, Rudolph, Belluschi and Nervi. Architects themselves seem highly mindful of TIME'S role in bringing architecture to a wider public. Gordon Bunshaft, the man who gave a lift to Manhattan's Park Avenue with his famous postwar Lever House, says. "There are times when we don't know whether we're working for a client or for TIME...
...recent robust and rugged style would probably be in startling contrast to the varied elegance of the four surrounding buildings: the low-slung theater originally designed by the late Eero Saarinen, Max Abramovitz' travertine-columned Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's fluted Metropolitan Opera House, Pietro Belluschi's Juilliard School of Music. The center's governing committee got Moore to look at the site, and last week, after Yorkshire-born Sculptor Moore pored over a model of the site, he agreed to take on what should be the most formidable modern outdoor piece in a public...
...kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...
...Pietro Belluschi, dean of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture and Planning; Thomas Church, San Francisco landscape artist; Bartlett Hayes Jr., director of the Addison Gallery at Andover; Joseph Hudnut, professor emeritus of architecture at Harvard; and Paul Rudolph, architecture department chairman at Yale...
...churches, Belluschi (a Roman Catholic who has worked as well for Lutherans, Episcopalians and Jews) is responsible for the inclusion of such traditional equipment as candlesticks and crucifixes, calls in such modernists as Sculptor Richard Lippold and Painter Gyorgy Kepes to help. He demands that artists use materials both as contemporary as stainless steel and as old as cathedral glass, to give the church traditional richness and warmth of color. In searching for the most modern solution, he has lately returned to the earliest Christian prototypes: Portsmouth Priory's Church of St. Gregory the Great repeats in its octagonal...