Word: modularity
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...little bit of 'ye olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
...buildings are so far apart that they lose all relationship to each other. Corbu replies that he designed it with the measure of man in mind. One unit of measurement was the distance that a man can walk in an hour. For the interiors, he used his mystifying modular-a personal improvisation on the ancient Greek Golden Section based on the harmonies of the human body. This is one Corbuism that even his admirers find difficult. Says Editor Banham of the British Architectural Review. "It is a ragbag of ideas of the 18903, represented with such seductive force that...
...Kaufman and Hart comedy will be performed on a stage now being erected in the Lower Common Room of the Harvard Union. The modular stage owned by Dunster House, which was built this year with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, will be the basis of the temporary structure, while elements of the Adams House apron stage. also financed in part by the Ford Foundation, will be used to complete it. The new stage is designed for minimal interference with normal activity in the common room, piano room, and TV room...
...Venice Junior High School, a $548,213 building for 450 pupils, an uncompromisingly modular steel, concrete and glass campus plan that Architects John Crowell of Sarasota, 43, and Mark Hampton of Tampa, 35, thought would best adjust to the changing demands of function. Colored panels and waffle-grid roof lighten the heavy industrial look...
...crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe's precise, modular construction, had already put up some of the best in glass, aluminum and steel that the U.S. can boast today...