Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have paid to Minoru Yamasaki [Jan. 18] by adding him to your previous selections of Distinguished Architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Stone and Le Corbusier. And thank you for placing it under Art, where architecture belongs, as it is and always has been a fine art. Mies van der Rohe and Bunshaft come under engineering and IBM machines. And I. M. Pei belongs under water...
...that is exactly what frightens other European nations. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak said that only because Britain "stood alone in 1940 is it possible for us to speak today of a Europe that can integrate itself." West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder reasserted his conviction that Britain should be admitted to the Common Market. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearful of offending his old friend De Gaulle on the eve of a visit to Paris this week, suggested that there was no cause for alarm...
Though every German soprano worthy of her breastplate has sung the role of the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, other singers keep a respectful distance. The Marschallin's notes are within easy reach of the best sopranos, but dramatically her role is too restrained for Italians, too aristocratic for Americans, too Viennese for the French. Last week though, a French soprano named Régine Crespin sang the final Marschallin of her first season at the Metropolitan Opera. It was the best at the Met since Lotte Lehmann's swan song 16 years...
More Is More. Early in this century, the French architect Auguste Perret declared, "Decoration always hides an error in construction"; later, the great Mies van der Rohe summed up the approach to purity and discipline in the phrase "Less is more." These tenets have to a large degree held sway ever since. But to Yamasaki, this architecture lacks "delight, serenity and surprise," and if he must have decoration to achieve these things, he will have it. Until the Seattle Pavilion opened, the unserene battle over architectural philosophy that Yamasaki stirred up was kept mostly within the profession, but the public...
...Pisa, the two cities, he says, that were most exposed to the influence of the contemplative East. Decline of the Glass Box. Back in the U.S., Yamasaki proceeded to tell his profession what he had learned. He paid handsome tribute to the glass box of the great Mies van der Rohe, but the glass box, except in the hands of a few highly talented men, had deteriorated into a cliché. He denounced "the dogma of rectangles" and the module system of building - "as monotonous as the Arabian desert." He deplored the "plastering of whole blocks of midtown New York...