Word: designate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute of Architects' awards (Saarinen cover; Edward D. Stone cover, March 31, 1958), and designed by Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s Professor of Visual Design, Form Givers at Mid-Century opens this week at Washington's Corcoran Gallery, first stop on a nationwide tour. For a preview, see ART, The New Architecture...
...Night in Jail. After graduation from Harvard, cum laude, Chris enrolled at the Columbia University architecture school and New York's School of Applied Design. But at his class's first reunion back at Harvard, in 1916, a classmate who was about to leave for a minor post in the U.S. embassy in Berlin told the aspiring architect about another opening at the embassy, urged him to apply for it. A week later young Herter sailed for Europe with his friend...
...those ''responsible for such things." i.e., Communist propagandists. Then he spoke glowingly of Broadway's musicals (West Side Story, My Fair Lady), the cornucopia of Manhattan's super-drugstores, the infectious tempo of Manhattan's streets and the variety of its restaurants, the ingenious design of U.S. highways (better than Germany's), the superb discipline of orchestras accompanying his dancers, the "children's land of enchantment" in California's Disneyland. Moiseyev was not without a few gay barbs. He tweaked gaudy American advertisements for stiffening sales resistance; the incessant screaming of fire...
...most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...
Wright's concept of architecture was so all-encompassing that it permeated nearly every aspect of his life, from his clothes, cut to his order and design, to the chairs, napkins, bed. and even the desk blotters that he used. Hand in hand with his passion for design went a Nietzschean sense of destiny. Said he: "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change...