Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Barcelona pavilion, a low-slung one-story jewel brilliantly combining such elegant materials as travertine, Tinian marble, gray glass, onyx and steel, was Mies' first major public building to demonstrate many of these concepts. It immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter...
"God in Details." Very probably it did. With its assortment of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, the city was certainly receptive to architectural innovations. For its part, the institute not only gave Mies free rein to organize his school but asked him to design a 22-building complex...
No Idleness. Somehow, everyone stays a part of the Catholic community in Cuernavaca. Gregoire Lemercier and most of his monks are now laymen, operating a psychoanalytic center near the old monastery grounds. Their elegant religious art is still sold on the cathedral grounds, and Lemercier, now married, is still close...
She moves so easily, with such knowing grace; she walks in metric beauty, through her mellowing lover's elegant world-through it and beyond, at last, to younger, stronger, more passionate arms. But then she goes back to the other guy.
The crowds began to gather at Entebbe airport half a day before the Pope was due: women in elegant, bright' ly patterned neck-to-ankle dresses, men toting six-foot cowhide horns, calypso singers and tribal dancers. Shouts went up when the East African Airways VC-10 appeared, flanked...