Word: modernist
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...Trade Center in New York City, the new United Nations building in Toronto, and the Media Lab Extension at MIT, among others. In Tokyo alone, he has built 30 works, including the Spiral, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the TV Asahi. “His work is grounded in modernist tradition, but it is always in its time fresh and contemporary,” said Toshiko Mori, chair of the GSD’s department of architecture. She said Maki’s buildings in Tokyo provide “examples of good taste in a city filled with kitsch...
...each of 10 capital cities Adjaye snapped in his travels to the western, southern, and eastern regions of the continent. Many African capitals seem wracked with the same problems: a previous architectural tradition hijacked by colonialism and poorly managed since independence. Adjaye has his eyes largely on colonial and Modernist architecture, but also on the more informal architectural phenomena—marketplaces, slums, and so on—that spring up without the support or consent of the government. Directly following achievements of national independence in the late 1950s and 1960s, Modernist architecture became a powerful public symbol of progress...
...turned the world upside down by turning it inside out. What would ordinarily have been the inner workings of the museum - escalators, ventilation ducts, even its steel structural framework - were put on the outside, making it easier to produce large, uninterrupted gallery spaces within. Rogers (and Piano) took the Modernist rule that a building should clearly express its structure and extended it into realms where Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier never ventured...
...Little House,” Burgin explores the eighteenth-century European fascination with the “Oriental.” This fascination is apparent in the exotic descriptions of the rooms in “Le Petite Maison,” which Burgin sets off against the modernist Schindler House...
...many ways the author’s literary manifesto.Gao, an intellectual who wrote his most well known novel, “Soul Mountain,” while in exile after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is a self-described non-Communist, non-democratic, non-traditionalist non-modernist author. Rejecting the ideological dogmatism that defined the nation of his birth, Gao argues for the individuality of the writing process and for a view of literature as a spiritual endeavor rather than a political one.It’s an original—even admirable—thesis, but unfortunately, the book lacks...