Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room Park Avenue apartment. The Ganzes own America's biggest private collection of Picassos, and called in Designer Robsjohn-Gibbings to find a way to keep the Picassos from overpowering the rooms. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Mrs. Ganz selected massive pieces of authentic Italian Renaissance and Spanish Gothic furniture, mixed them with 17th century English chairs, created a remarkably effective multi-century effect that recognizes Picasso's presence but does not succumb to him altogether...
Yalies live in gothic buildings. This seems a suitable setting for the ideas of yesteryear. Fellx Cayo '54, Yale...
...union of technique and architectural expression reached its greatest perfection during the Gothic period, the Italian architect said. In Gothic construction, "one cannot distinguish the engineering aspect from the architectural...
...Gothic structural technique, Nervi claimed, was so perfectly suited to its ends that, using the same materials, modern engineers could not "introduce important modifications with out at the same time destroying the main anticipated result, Le., to cover stably the large central nave...
Nervi also ascribes the extraordinary aesthetic and emotional success of Gothic architecture to the "inseparable mixture of cold technique and fervid passion" which went into...