Word: fa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this impasse, some architects now think that they have found the solution right in the heart of the building itself. They are designing buildings that 1) make an asset of the very plumbing, air-conditioning ducts and service areas that have hitherto been tucked away behind the clean façades, and 2) letting the irregularly shaped functional areas within a building be seen clearly from the outside...
...shown by Rudolph's own IBM building in East Fishkill, N.Y., where the middle floor is devoted to machinery whose intake and exhaust hoods grow out from beneath the cantilevered top story like heavy eyelids. In other office buildings, Rudolph has let ductwork swarm like vines over the fa?ade, set his stairwells out from the walls like turrets. And in his soon-to-be-completed Creative Arts Center at Colgate University, he has tried an even more daring scheme: he has turned the building inside...
...with faceless, anonymous architecture that conceals function is John Johansen, 49, whose Goddard Library at Clark University in Massachusetts looks more like a photocopying machine than a glassy showcase for books. Johansen believes that architects, like all thinking people today, yearn to pierce through established façades: "Nothing goes unquestioned today; nothing is taken at its face value...
...initiates a seduction while posing nude for a life class in Rome. He has his way with a working model (Irina Demick), a baker's wife (Sandra Milo), a widow (Annie Girardot) and a winsome ingenue (Catherine Deneuve)-without ever letting a hint of prurience mar his bland façade. Quite simply, he appears to have been overtaken by the sex drive before learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle man." His successful misadventures...
Cultural Bonanza. Sitting in Sydney's harbor, Utzon's incomplete colossus is composed of three structures with cantile vered rooftops. Since they are seen from passing ships, Utzon conceived of the roofs as "the fifth fa?ade." Into them, he has poured all his inventiveness. The roof lines billow like the spinnakers of a squadron of racing yachts...