Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center's designer, Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, emeritus, disclosed yesterday that the modern buildings could have been soundproofed for an additional...
...Gropius said that he knew the sound-proofing was faulty when the Center was designed. "I wrote the authorities for the right to plaster the walls," he declared, "but the project was on a tight budget and I could not get permission...
...welded sculpture is also finding new customers. It is cheaper than cast works, and, by its nature, each object is unique. Collectors are now buying it to decorate Texas and Hollywood patios and Manhattan rooftops. Topflight modern architects-Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, et al.-are using it to decorate new library facades, chapels, and new college buildings...
...their living and working places to combine comfort and beauty, Mies's stark, steel-ribbed structures seem as sterile-and ominous-as a steer's skeleton burned white in the desert sun. But Mies* is one of the most important architects of his time. Together with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, he has had a profound influence on cityscapes of the 20th century...
...testimony to the way the life of the spirit leaps from century to century and is contemporary in each. It is being designed by one of the brightest-burning lights of modern architecture-Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer, 51, who learned his disciplined economy of line and plane at Walter Gropius' famed Bauhaus in the '20s, and developed it into one of the most flexible and creative styles on U.S. drawing boards...