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International reaction to Gaudí has also been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...
DIED. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, 81, art historian and architectural critic; in London. A university lecturer in Germany who fled Hitler in 1933, Pevsner became a devoted student and admirer of his adoptive England, where a fascination with the society and its architecture inspired his 46-volume, still definitive critique The Buildings of England, which he wrote from 1951 to 1974. A comprehensively informed, exhaustively organized scholar, who taught at both Cambridge and Oxford, Pevsner supervised and contributed to a multivolume history of world...
Premiere of a work for winds and solo viola by Mark Pevsner '76 in concert along with compositions by Hindemith and Berger. Lowell...
...positive from a previous void. In much of the optical and kinetic movements, one sees the Constructivist concern for space rather than for mass reiterated, especially in the French group, La Groupe de la Recherche Visuele, that includes such pioneers as La Parc and Agam. From Gabo and Pevsner's use of spatial structure comes spatial drawing as manifested in Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles, Anthony Caro's I Beams or even Picasso's wire sculptures...
...director of the school, Rudolph presumably knew better than anyone else what sort of building was needed. And many praised its boldly massed forms, rough concrete surfaces and unconventionally playful use of space. Yet from the start Rudolph's design drew criticism. British Architectural Critic Nikolas Pevsner doubted that such an idiosyncratic and personal building could meet the changing needs of new directors and new educational goals. Yale students went even farther. "The building was a nice visual experience," says one, "but from the start it was functionally inadequate." Student painters and sculptors, who tend to think big these...