Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EDWARD O'CLEARY...
...making it the theme of a comprehensive and 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...
...firm to teach Laotians how to operate the machinery. But the engineers arrived to find that, without Washington's knowledge, the local ICA mission had arranged for a Bangkok company, Universal Construction Co., to handle the job. One explanation emerged in testimony last week before a House subcommittee; Edward T. McNamara, husky ICA public-works officer in Laos from 1955 to 1957, admitted receiving stock and cash amounting to more than $12,000 from Universal "for assistance rendered by me in establishment of the contract...
...World Congress of Flight, which the Air Force assembled last week among the slot machines of Las Vegas, Nev., Dr. Edward Teller described a scheme to explode a nuclear charge 100 million miles away from the earth. The purpose would be to test a key assumption of Einstein's theory of relativity: that every kind of electromagnetic radiation (light, infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves, X rays and gamma rays) travels at the same speed-186,000 miles a second...
...show selects five as master form givers-the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto. Of the second generation, eight are singled out as leaders: Architects Marcel Breuer, Wallace K. Harrison, Philip C. Johnson, Richard J. Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Edward D. Stone, Engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and eying the future, the show leads to two major conclusions: 1) modern architecture has now clearly swept its early Beaux Arts enemies from the battlefield; 2) its architects, secure in their conquest...