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The project's virtuous social agenda would be unremarkable without its world-class aesthetic aspirations. More than 200 architects from 15 countries entered IBA's invitational design competitions, and the winners constitute a sort of international Who's Who. West Berlin has or will soon have new IBA buildings by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Rebuilding Berlin - Yet Again | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Wealthy, media savvy and hypersensitive to professional status, Tange is something like a Japanese Philip Johnson, but with Le Corbusier as his guru instead of Mies van der Rohe. As a teenager, Tange saw Corbusier's drawings for two huge public buildings, and he was smitten. "Right then and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: An Elegant Sweep Toward Heaven | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

The grim reign of Adolf Hitler in Europe had one ironic benefit for the U.S. Among the emigres, mostly Jewish, who fled to these shores to escape him were designers, filmmakers and composers who would sound a new note in the American arts, one that kept ringing long after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Must Remember This | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

So when Gropius was appointed as head of the architectural program, the International style received in one stroke the legitimacy it had previously lacked in the United States. True, during this time it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another refugee from the Nazis and a former student of Gropius...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: America's Tower of Architectural Power | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

So when Gropius was appointed as head of the architectural program, the International style received in one stroke the legitimacy it had previously lacked in the United States. True, during this time it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another refugee from the Nazis and a former student of Gropius...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: America's Tower of Architectural Power | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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