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...DIED. PIERRE KOENIG, 78, pioneering California architect who shocked suburbia with Modernist glass-and-steel frame homes; in Los Angeles. His cantilevered Case Study House No. 22, below, remains one of the most photographed residences in the world and has been featured frequently in films, advertisements and TV shows. A San Francisco native, Koenig graced southern California with more than 40 eye-popping Modernist homes, including his own magnificent, multilevel Brentwood abode...
...these reasons, the production will be “relatively modernist,” according to Hay. Actors will not be dressed in period costumes and Hay has decided to incorporate “some musical accompaniment that calls to mind blues and black music of the first half of the 20th-century, so much of which in one way or another was about the injustices that blacks faced, how hard life was as a black person,” he said...
...those in an Escher engraving; the way the low-slung Scandinavian Modern chairs bear mismatched cushions, piled in quixotic efforts to render them more comfortable; the way that you can claim entire floors for yourself—an impossibility in densely-peopled Lamont. I love that someone had a modernist vision so complete that the furnishings and even stacks echo the architecture. I love that this vision was not entirely practical. Officeholders mosaic their sterile doors with photographs in an effort to humanize them. Librarians look cowed by the empty space surrounding them. For the Scandinavian Modern chairs?...
...Intransigence does. Here’s where David and I part company. Forming and maintaining intractable opinions of other people—good or bad—doesn’t make life interesting; it makes it boring. I can’t help but think of all those modernist painters—cubists and the like—who got fed up with seeing the same things over and over again. Their crazy canvases force us see the objects of everyday existence as if they were completely alien and unknown. The idea is that our second impressions are even...
...says, “the great thing about a bigger pond is that you can see all the ways in which people are wonderful.” Wagner says that the kid she sees sleeping in class, for example, could be “starting a neo-post-modernist art movement,” and “that kid you know because you hooked up with him at a party is a researcher and has published 15 articles...