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...schoolboy in Waxahachie, Texas, went on to study drama at the town's Trinity University. In 1933 he studied at Yale under the university's late famed Drama Professor George Pierce Baker (no kin). Next year he had set up a shop in a onetime chapel at Baylor, produced an experimental play. All the while he inveighed against the restrictions of conventional theaters-theaters with "one box for the actor and another box for the audience and that's all." The first thing he decided to do, Baker recalled last week, "was to break...
When Brazil's famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer designed the chapel 16 years ago for Belo Horizonte (pop. 650,000), he was inspired by French Poet Paul Claudel's statement: "A church is God's hangar on earth." But to Belo Horizonte's Roman Catholic archbishop, Niemeyer's hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino...
...Kubitschek was President of Brazil; and Architect Niemeyer was an ex-Communist. After a long talk with Brazil's national-monuments chief, Auxiliary Archbishop Dom João Rezende Costa agreed that the church has "great artistic significance and a spiritual atmosphere." Refurbished by Architect Niemeyer, the old chapel was at last consecrated by Archbishop Rezende Costa before an enthusiastic crowd of citizens. Said the archbishop: "Now we can feel the wonderful art created here in homage to the Creator." Said Architect Niemeyer: "Looks good, doesn...
Pace Setters. With the quickening in the architectural air even the oldtimers, once content merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal...
...defense fund" was subsequently raised to help sue the police if the town pressed charges against the students. Among those then planning to sue was Carnegie Teaching Fellow Frederic Hammond, who was arrested and manhandled on the steps of Battell Chapel when he emerged after playing the chapel organ. Several students have signed statements claiming that they were beaten while being taken to the station in squad cars...