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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Minoru Yamasaki of the World Trade Center, or spokesmen of cultural grandeur like I.M. Pei. Indeed, given the architecture Americans have had for 40 years, such a description virtually deprives Post-Modernism of living father figures. There are, of course, dead grandfathers, from the Catalan master of Art Nouveau, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), to the English imperial architect Sir Edward Lutyens, whose richly coded and sometimes wildly illogical structures were left wherever the British army marched, from the Somme battlefields to New Delhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...intentions read best in his houses, most recently in a ski lodge at Aspen, Colo. It is a stew of historical references: "An Art Nouveau grandfather clock with arts-and-crafts overtones," says Venturi, and overlaid with suggestions of tree house, pagoda and the intimate precision of the Finnish master Alvar Aalto. Outside, it is an aggressive little building, with its oversize dormer windows, tight walls and thick compressive hat of a roof. Inside, the Mission style takes over, providing an enveloping timber womb in the form of a vaulted sitting room on the top floor-one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Students have found South House to be a generally happy, friendly place to live," Warren E.C. Wacker, master of South House, said yesterday. "The feelings of belonging to a community have out-weighed the negative factors such as being so far away from the Yard," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Shows South House Students Happy | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...Living in a House with good people, a good master, and good facilities are the things that make a happy House," Fox added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Shows South House Students Happy | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...Misbehavin'. Fats Waller was a man of foxily mischievous humor, a rollicking hand on the keyboard, and a ravenous appetite for Bach, booze and broads. Old soldiers may fade away, but this jubilant musical tribute proves that the manner and the music of a master jazzman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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