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...years ago this fall, he came to begin work on a home for the practice and instruction of the visual arts at Harvard. With his characteristic black glasses sitting upon his beaked nose, Corbusier’s arrival marked not only the birth of a significant piece of the modernist architectural canon, but also a significant—and to this point, unparalleled—moment in Harvard’s historically tenuous relationship with contemporary art and architecture...
Harvard University Art Museum curator Linda Norton and graduate student Scott Rothkopf have commissioned Huyghe to respond to Harvard’s most beloved, if not emblematic work of architecture. Their charge: to consider the con temporary and future impact of this eclectic Modernist monument...
Technicians and stagehands rushed yesterday to put the finishing touches on an elaborate setup that will host the Bush family and 4,000 supporters at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center tonight. The stark, modernist atrium of the building was transformed into a glowing red, white and blue motif, complete with massive American flags and candy-colored lighting schemes...
...best-known work, Portrait of a Marriage - based on a memoir by his mother, novelist Vita Sackville-West, found after she died in 1962 - chronicles his parents' devoted, if unconventional union. DIED. EDWARD LARRABEE BARNES, 89, architect whose functional houses and skyscrapers represented a humane approach to the sleek Modernist style; in Cupertino, California. A proponent of simplicity in design, he once said that most architectural ideas could be expressed on the back of an envelope...
DIED. EDWARD KILLINGSWORTH, 86, pioneer modernist architect; in Long Beach, Calif. Along with Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra and others, he designed six of the important Case Study Houses, a seminal Los Angeles--based project promoting modern design and cost-effective materials for the postwar housing boom...