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...there was an American architecture, epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. But in the '30s its heritage was cast away for a mess of ideological pottage, cooked up in the Bauhaus by various Germans and mittel Europeans under the sway of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This wholly alien style-monastic, severe, technology obsessed and full of socialist implications, smelling of Utopia and garlic-was brought to America, a country that (as Wolfe argues in one of his more dizzying transports of sociological fancy) had no need for worker housing and was therefore ill-fitted...
...ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken notion that Mies van der Rohe contrived the 1958 Seagram Building as "worker housing, utterly nonbourgeois." If Wolfe cannot see what august luxury that Grid contains, he literally does not know how to see architecture...
...Matthew 13:45 ("The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls"), had its beginnings in late 1979, when Open Doors was approached secretly by a house church leader, who urgently requested Old and New Testaments. Under the guidance of Open Doors President Anne van der Bijl, 53, staffers began raising money for the mission in the U.S. through dinners, direct mail and TV spots. The aim of the campaign was disclosed, but not the way the mission would be accomplished. Cost of the venture: $6 million, of which $3.5 million came from...
...function of the Design section to follow form-to trace its myriad varieties and analyze its influence on the way we live, work and play. The section will interpret, in the widest possible sense, the patterns and shapes of our world. Design, noted the celebrated architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, includes everything from teacups to city planning. Accordingly, says Senior Editor William Ewald, who will edit the new section, "Design will deal with, say, the silhouette of a new telephone, with why the Susan B. Anthony dollar was doomed from the start, with eggcups, airports, flowerpots, type faces, shopping...
...essentially the same work that had fallen afoul of Pravda, but noticeably missing were the trombone slides, the most literal music depiction of sexual intercourse since the famous interrupted climax in Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and the lusty horn whoops in the prelude to Der Rosenkavalier...