Word: gothics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammond Radio Research Laboratory, over the years collected some 350 patents for inventions ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...
...great 12th century Augustinian monk, Hugh of St. Victor, explained the uniquely European religious art form that turned Gothic cathedrals into lanterns of light. Today a new generation of Christian churches (more than 3,000 in West Germany alone) has arisen. Once again artisans of stained glass have been called back into service to enliven, enrich and ennoble houses of worship (see color pages...
...cathedral-sized church of Notre Dame in Royan. Pioneered in Europe by the late French architect Auguste Ferret, it makes possible spans and spires undreamed of by medieval minds. To fill in the voids, glass craftsmen have been called upon to hang handsome curtains that would have as tonished Gothic glassmakers. These new, iridescent walls of glass lend a ripple of color to otherwise oatmeal-grey concrete. The glassmakers must work hand in hand with the architect. Says France's best-known glass designer, Gabriel Loire, 60: "We do not come in at the last moment just to fill...
Abstract Lenses. The magnificent Gothic cathedrals, Kidder Smith points out, "were designed for a fearsomely omnipotent deity, a procession-laden liturgy and a priestly autocracy, which certainly does not answer the problems of today's ethos." New churches must touch the individual in a modern, more personal way; their stained glass can no longer be a luminous Bible full of a panoply of cartoon parables for the illiterate. Says Loire: "The glass should not be a distraction, but it should aid people to enter into themselves...
Actually, the demands placed on modern stained glass exceed even those imposed on Gothic craftsmanship. For Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Loire constructed 22,000 foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...