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As a result, there is a rare freshness about the book, a personal as well as professional intimacy. In between the more technical passages, it is good to get a glimpse of Frank Lloyd Wright swatting flies and crying, "Mies," "Breuer" or "Gropius" at every swat, or to hear France...
Mies & More. Eero was never a man to follow another blindly. He was enormously indebted to the disciplined ("Less is more") approach of Architect Mies van der Rohe. Yet he came to regard the strict functionalism of his elders in the International Style more as a "purgative" than a final...
Trumbull to Rothko. As the committee worked on the collection, SOM was providing a setting that even the Medicis might have envied. The golden carpeting for the 17th floor executive offices came from Hong Kong. SOM designed tables to conform to the disciplined lines of the building; the chairs ranged...
Temples & Palazzi. For almost every other young architect at the time, about the only school that mattered was the Beaux Arts in Paris, which in the age of the machine was dutifully teaching the new generation how to put up Greek temples and Renaissance palazzi. But beyond the walls of...
Only slightly less active than the Imam's friends have been the Imam's ene mies. Three weeks ago, a trusted bodyguard shot the old man down as he was visiting cronies in the Hodeida Hospital. Eight Italian surgeons were rushed from Rome, and the Imam's...