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...crafts movement in England, and the art nouveauists, who all felt a messianic urge to put art into everyday items. Dada and surrealism came along to mock them-but then the International Style, the architectural rubric of glass-and-steel boxes, came along to mock the mockers. Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, for example, all set about to design better chairs for man to plop in, and, save a sore sacroiliac or so, they succeeded...
...Hague, Marcel Breuer built a blunt, lantern-windowed structure as stolid as a Dutch door. In Athens, Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month...
...Five years ago, the wife of the late architect Eero Saarinen bought one of Nagare's works. Soon foreign admirers-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Minoru Yamasaki-boosted him until he had more buyers in the U.S. than in Japan. When he finally caught on in his native land, he became the rage so rapidly that he had to hide from acclaim. When Yamasaki asked how to reach him, Nagare replied, "You can't. I move from farmhouse to farmhouse out in the country to run away from Japanese architects who want...
Private builders are serving the city better. This week New York's Municipal Art Society awarded a Certificate of Merit to a quasi-public building of rare distinction: Architect Marcel Breuer's rugged, jutting complex of dormitory, classroom and lecture hall for the campus of New York University at University Heights...
...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...