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...municipal authorities agreed on a set of laws meant to codify the city's piquant urban character. The Downtown Plan, a radical and ambitious zoning scheme, will protect dozens of fine older buildings from demolition, severely restrict the amount and bulk of new highrise construction and virtually outlaw the modernist office block...
...worries about Hilles’ architecture. If there is a unique building on the College’s campus, it is Hilles. Stepping inside is like opening the cover of a copy of Architectural Digest from 1965; the building has an incredible unity of design, its clean and spare modernist lines extending from the gross structure of the building—evocative, in a way, of traditional Japanese homes—into the details of its original furniture. It is simultaneously massive and weightless, airy but enclosed. Unlike the other major Harvard libraries, its focal point is a beautiful conduit...
...sculpted towers capitalize on an ancient inclination. Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Arata Isozaki have created fantasy buildings. But where are the new, exciting projects to please the millions of people worldwide who don't like heights? I'm delighted to be living near our town's elegant modernist De La Warr Pavilion, the architectural toast of 1935. This low-rise was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff when landscape buildings were fashionable. Vertical may be victorious, but horizontal is happier. Allan Bula Bexhill on Sea, England Lingering Racism Your article "a difficult lesson" described the racism that persists...
...relationship between Van Peebles’ art and politics: “Van Peebles’s politics are indeed revolutionary. But aesthetically, his films are defined by constraints—of finances, style, and content—which make them doubly significant. They are on the surface aesthetically modernist, but in the context of their production histories they are also industrially avant-garde...
...more than compensated for by the show’s tendency toward self-deprecation. Indeed, after reading a love poem Maggie has received from Plumb, Drake comments on the poor quality of the writing: “Ending on a dactyl—what is he, a post-modernist?” Though obviously out of character, it is typical of the show’s unique wit. True to this form, the entire closing number is made up of pointed criticisms of the plot. It is this refusal to take anything too seriously—whether the topic...