Word: modernists
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...ride to the museum was similarly enlightening, and a little ironic. To get to the library honoring perhaps the most quintessential Harvard man in history, you take a trip through the modernist brick architecture of UMass-Boston. It doesn't quite conjure visions of the Yard at sunset...
...even Paris is not all roses. One of Ana's roommates, the indubitably evil and indefatigably modernist Celeste, tries at every turn to thwart Ana's quest with hypocrisy, seduction, and general malevolence...
...fashion's Frank Lloyd Wright. In the more than 50 collections he has produced since 1968, Calvin Klein has remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly...
...become anesthetized to their condition." Rouse, to be sure, was a believer. After pioneering the suburban shopping mall, he came up with a revolutionary idea to lure people away from it. His strategy was to revitalize the decaying inner city his developments had helped denude--not with a gleaming, modernist makeover but by restoring original buildings and bustling public spaces. Rouse's "festival marketplaces" like Faneuil Hall in Boston and Harborplace in Baltimore, Maryland, not only brought shoppers (and tourists) back downtown but also reimagined the town-center social dynamism that attracted people to cities in the first place...
...many ways Bronfman's selection of Koolhaas is indeed as bold as his grandfather's choice of a modernist in 1954. After all, architects who refuse to condemn suburban mall sprawl and who favor cheap industrial materials aren't usually the beneficiaries of high-corporate patronage. Which isn't to imply that there are many--or even any--architects quite like Koolhaas. Some would label his disorienting, asymmetric buildings deconstructivist; he likes to consider himself an architect without style. For him, form not only doesn't follow function; the two are barely on speaking terms...