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...headed the planning team, U.S. Architect Wallace Kirkman Harrison, had expected criticism; Rockefeller Center, which Harrison helped design, was now a much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...Appointed Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller's great & good friend Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 49, as the $10,000-a-year Director of Inter-American Affairs. No career diplomat, Appointee Harrison is a Manhattan architect, co-designer of Rockefeller Center and the New York World's Fair Trylon & Perisphere...
Longheaded, high-domed Wallace Kirkman Harrison and affable mustached J. (for Jacques) André Fouilhoux were among the architects who planned Rockefeller Center. They share a predilection for economy in architectural form. In evolving their Theme Centre for the Fair they made more than 1,000 sketches before they hit on the ultimate starkness of sphere and pyramidal form. Neither had ever been built before; both would certainly influence other World's Fair architecture to avoid superfluous dressing. And though neither the Sphere nor the symmetrical Trylon alone could serve as a direction-pointing landmark to guide wanderers...
WALTER E. BEYER WILBUR C. BISHOP ELWOOD F. KIRKMAN SAMUEL S. SHUTTLEWORTH DAVID FORD...
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