Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machine had arrived with its challenge. With their own individual talents, Gropius' only rivals--Le Corbusier, Wright, Mies van der Rohe--responded. But only Gropius confronted the machine with an equally imposing voice. Only he replied in terms of the mechanistic, in terms that could grasp for beauty at the same time as they captured function...
Died. Welton Becket, 66, master architect whose clean, functional structures grace five continents; of congestive heart failure; in Los Angeles. Becket's eclectic approach lacked the individuality of a Mies van der Rohe or a Frank Lloyd Wright. "We are trying to solve the client's problems, and it is out of the solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, has long been fascinated by the idea of building museums. In 1943, he outlined his concept for "a museum for a small city" in Architectural Forum. "The first problem," he said, "is to establish the museum as a center for the enjoyment, not the interment, of art." To do this, he proposed to erase "the barrier between the work of art and the community" with a garden approach for the display of sculpture, plus a single, glass-curtained gallery built on a steel frame with freestanding interior walls...
...examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since 1932 the world's tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif., New Haven-based Kevin Roche has designed a three-tier museum, with the roof of each tier serving as a broad, verdant terrace. Philadelphia's innovative Louis Kahn, whom all architects watch with what amounts...
Among the new record breakers: Paul Klee's 1936 Südische Garten, formerly owned by Architect Mies van der Rohe, which went for $86,400; and Jean Dubuffet's 1947 Il Flúte sur la Basse, which brought $48,000. Highest bid was $300,000 for Picasso's oval-shaped 1912 cubist painting La Pointe de la Cite. Second most expensive picture was Georges Braque's Homage à J. S. Bach from the same period, which was bought for $276,000 by Manhattan Dealer Sidney Janis, who last January gave his first...