Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moiseyev began by saying he would leave discussion of U.S. shortcomings to those ''responsible for such things." i.e., Communist propagandists. Then he spoke glowingly of Broadway's musicals (West Side Story, My Fair Lady), the cornucopia of Manhattan's super-drugstores, the infectious tempo of Manhattan's streets and the variety of its restaurants, the ingenious design of U.S. highways (better than Germany's), the superb discipline of orchestras accompanying his dancers, the "children's land of enchantment" in California's Disneyland. Moiseyev was not without a few gay barbs. He tweaked...
...where does it go from here? In an ambitious effort to answer these questions, the American Federation of Arts this week opens a major exhibit in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Titled "Form Givers at Mid-Century," the show, sponsored and organized by TIME, will move on to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum in June, then tour the nation. Gallerygoers at the Corcoran will see models and photographs of 66 pivotal buildings, set off by panel-sized color transparencies, which provide a sampling of the best in 20th century architecture...
...Much Glass. As building after building in the exhibition shows, the major debt of the U.S.'s younger architects is owed to Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. His bronze-sheathed Seagram Building, shown glowing against Manhattan's skyline, is a masterful exposition of how the steel cage can, by the very economy of its means and richness of its texture, become a masterpiece. But in the most advanced projects, it is equally clear that few architects now consider themselves blind Mies followers...
...refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal for the Bacardi office building in Santiago, Cuba, has designed a templelike reinforced-concrete building, with shadows playing...
...Edward D. Stone's museum for A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford Jr., a ten-story concrete structure that will sit on an island in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Turning his back on the glass-brick walls he used for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Stone has designed a monumental façade of white marble, enriched by porphyry and verd antique marble medallions over the columns of the arcade. Admits Stone: "The resemblance to Venice, the Ca' d'Oro and Doges Palace, is probably unmistakable...