Word: pediment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...architects set out more consciously to create their own unique vision of a brave new world than in the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses were meant to open on a new democratic vista, where individualism and variety could prevail. In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass. In France, Le Corbusier prophesied skyscraper cities where man's habitation would be "a machine to live...
Bare for 24 years, the front pediment of Baker Library will get the carved-in Business School seal that was originally included in its plans, Clifford A. Foster, Superintendent of the School Buildings and Grounds, disclosed yesterday...