Word: palladio
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...Albuquerque. His work is not strictly modernist or postmodernist, classical or avant-garde; the pigeonholes do not apply. Predock, a self-described "cosmic modernist" who senses the "emanations" of a particular building site and says only half jokingly that he "would rather talk about UFOs than Palladio," is nevertheless creating a remarkable body of work -- tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive. He may be the first great New Age architect...
...Carree at Nimes in the south of France. All the architectural work he had admired during his years as American Minister to France from 1785-89 -- Pierre Rousseau's Hotel de Salm, the Pantheon, the mock ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces in his own designs, but the Maison Carree was decisive for American architecture as a whole. By copying it, Jefferson felt, one could improve the Republic's general taste, "introducing into the State an example...
...corporate office of General Foods in Westchester County, N.Y., makes its concession to history not by adapting ornamental forms but by shaping white aluminum and glass into a graceful, lyrical palace reminiscent of the work of the great 16th century architect Palladio. Designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates, it has genuine richness and grandeur...
...meet aesthetic requirements while also reconciling conflicting aims inherent in the programs. Haggia Sophia, a great church constructed in the sixth century, symbolized the stability and unity of Justinian's reign, simultaneously conveying the sense of imcompleteness, anxiety, and aspiration crucial to its function as a place of worship. Palladio's Pallazzo Chiericati in Venice serves a double function as a private house and a border to a public square. Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in southern California provides a communal framework in which scientists can carry out individual research...
...hybrid genre--it pretended to be a filmed record of a performance in a provincial opera house, with shots of the audience thrown in to be sure you understood the universality of Mozart's message. Losey never wavers from his no-holds-barred outdoors staging, using the Palladio villas near Vicenza as an occasional refuge from the bright sun that over-exposes many of the scenes...