Word: modular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main problem was to combine glass, which frames views of the Kreeger's 5½-acre lot, with hanging room for their art. To solve their problem, Johnson chose a style that he terms "Mediterranean modern," designed the house as a series of modular galleries topped with lifted cross-vaults. These give it a vague resemblance to Istanbul's domed Hagia Sophia, which has led some Washington wags to dub it "Bauhaus Byzantine...
When S.O.M. won out over nine other firms in its bid to design the $152.5 million Air Force Academy, it decided to use the same modular glass curtain walls. But not without a fight. When a high-ranking Air Force officer suggested that the architects might better use sandstone, Owings was ready with an answer. "General," he said, "would you build an airplane out of sandstone? Well, I don't think we will build the academy out of it either...
Machine-Made Vision. The sculptor mining the modular vein who has attracted the most attention this season is Donald Judd, 39, known among minimal fans as the most severe and uncompromising of the "dumb box boys." For Judd, a box is a box is a box, and nothing more; free associations are forbidden. Judd's monumental boxes and series of boxes currently cram the warehouse-sized third floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum in a one-man show dubbed "a chilling triumph" by partisans, and "pedestals in search of a nude" by less admiring observers...
Even in an affluent middle-class suburb, the modern, modular, $1,500,000 medical building would stand out. Along its cool white corridors hangs a collection of paintings that phase from photographic realism to violent impressionism. But many of the paintings, done by artists living in the neighborhood the medical building serves, are tinged with bitterness against white authority and the Government. For the building is the new Watts Health Center, smack in the middle of "Charcoal Alley," scene of the fiery Negro riots...
...Port, an internally lit blue and transparent plastic piece by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and the giant slab of plastic Swiss cheese called Blue Dots by Noriyasu Fukushima have the same cleanness as Robert Morris' silvery series of knife-edged I-beams and Donald Judd's turquoise modular grids. All four works convey a feeling of openness and expansion, a common dedication to a spatial rhythm that can, in theory at least, be repeated to infinity...