Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before he came to the U.S. in 1950, Okada derived his forms from landscapes and figures: "I worked with the object." But for a man who ultimately decided that he wanted to paint the interior of his own mind, the object merely inhibited the necessary flight of fancy. And so Okada turned to abstraction, which he calls "the Western way" but his Western way still keeps the flavor of Japan...
...limit), with warm, steady characters and almost any useful skill. They will get four to six weeks' training at colleges and universities, serve for one year without pay, get mustering-out pay of about $900. Though draft-deferred, they will not be exempt from later military service. As Interior Secretary Stewart Udall recently put it: "We seek a new harvest of idealism that we have let lie fallow here at home...
department's changing needs. Yamasaki decided on a clear-span plan, with no interior columns. The structure has tall, tapered concrete columns with exposed brackets that hold precast, prestressed concrete girders. The girders, 7 ft. high by 34 ft. long, will have designs on them to give them scale and to express their purpose as structural members. > The Woodrow Wilson School of Pub lic and International Affairs, at Prince ton, which Yamasaki designed to express "the nobility of public service." The scheme consists of 60 white precast columns, 28 ft. high, which will provide support for the upper floor...
...hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work grew bigger, the autocritical facility of the architectural profession grew harsher - often with Yamasaki leading the pack. Critics declared the soaring interior of the Reynolds Metals Co. Building, which won a third A.I.A. First Honor Award, an impressive success; but they denounced the exterior grille, made of thousands of interlocking aluminum circles, as "costume jewelry." For Detroit's Northwest Y.W.C.A., Yamasaki designed a simple and highly practical building around a charming...
...Nebraska's Incumbent Democratic Governor Frank B. Morrison assumed again the conservative stance that helped him defeat Fred Seaton, President Eisenhower's Interior Secretary. "Nebraska has the lowest per capita tax rate of any of the 50 states," he said. "I would like to see it remain so." Moreover, he had not lost the humble humor that makes him popular. Interrupting his speech to quaff a cup of water, he quipped: "I was raised in Kansas and never completely recovered from being...