Word: designer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...UCLA professor of architecture noted for his work in the field of computer--assisted design has accepted a tenure offer from the Graduate School of Design...
...right place (prosperous middle Europe) to lead the radical transformation of architecture during the 1920s and '30s. He left his native Germany just ahead of probable persecution by the Nazis, arrived in Chicago just as his austere vision was catching on among U.S. architects and developed his pragmatic skyscraper design just as the war ended and corporate America found itself instantly in need of such a prototype for acres of new high-rise office space...
...Franz Schulze titled simply Mies van der Rohe (University of Chicago; $39.95). Barcelona has nearly finished reconstructing his perfect building, the cool, absolutely confident German Pavilion built for the 1929 International Exposition. And now at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, always Mies' most important institutional propagandist, Architecture and Design Director Arthur Drexler has assembled the ultimate Mies exhibit: doodles, sketches, renderings, building models, photographs, furniture and even construction materials, all packed into two floors...
...organized an exhibit of modernist work at MOMA in 1932, co- authored a book on the movement and mounted a 1947 MOMA show all about Mies. Then, in the mid-1950s, Johnson helped him win the commission for the Seagram headquarters in New York City and collaborated on the design...
Once a dedicated foe of the French cultural establishment, Boulez has become his country's unofficial musical czar. Such is his clout that the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique commands a disproportionate share of the money that the French government spends on music. Boulez has influenced the design of the flexibly configured concert hall at the Cite de la Musique, La Villette, which will become the new site of the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1989. He is also vice president of the board of the new Opera Bastille, which will become the home of the Paris Opera...