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Dead Space. Kaufman does not hesitate to preach what he practices, irking conventional architects. "Handsome details and elegant proportions are meaningless," he says. "No one notices them; they fade into the canyon walls." He therefore deprecates Manhattan's architectural landmarks-Lud-wig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram...
Less may be more, according to the new designers, but for Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum to be true, as he well knew, careful attention must be paid to structure, to supports, to underpinnings. Barrie frankly uses narrow crisscross straps, back or front. Crahay of Lanvin...
"Less," said the late architect, Mies van der Rohe, "is more." Folk Singer Joan Baez and Husband David Harris-so happily married when he was in jail on a three-year sentence for refusing induction into the Army-have found since his release ten months ago that more marriage is...
At 54, Johansen is still relentlessly curious and something of a loner, but his dissent has firmed. With a growing minority of other highly gifted American architects, Johansen is engaged in what amounts to the first rethinking of the architectural commandments handed down years ago by the late Mies van...
"Less is more," Mies van der Rohe said, and even the architects are beginning to doubt it. In the theater less is less-and less, and less. The Age of Cool is a blight to the theater. Drama was born to be larger, more vivid and more intense than life...