Word: rohe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...color spreads we have directed attention to the best works of such gifted contemporaries as Mies van der Rohe, Breuer, Gropius, Saarinen, Rudolph, Belluschi and Nervi. Architects themselves seem highly mindful of TIME'S role in bringing architecture to a wider public. Gordon Bunshaft, the man who gave a lift to Manhattan's Park Avenue with his famous postwar Lever House, says. "There are times when we don't know whether we're working for a client or for TIME...
More Is More. Early in this century, the French architect Auguste Perret declared, "Decoration always hides an error in construction"; later, the great Mies van der Rohe summed up the approach to purity and discipline in the phrase "Less is more." These tenets have to a large degree held sway ever since. But to Yamasaki, this architecture lacks "delight, serenity and surprise," and if he must have decoration to achieve these things, he will have it. Until the Seattle Pavilion opened, the unserene battle over architectural philosophy that Yamasaki stirred up was kept mostly within the profession, but the public...
...cities, he says, that were most exposed to the influence of the contemplative East. Decline of the Glass Box. Back in the U.S., Yamasaki proceeded to tell his profession what he had learned. He paid handsome tribute to the glass box of the great Mies van der Rohe, but the glass box, except in the hands of a few highly talented men, had deteriorated into a cliché. He denounced "the dogma of rectangles" and the module system of building - "as monotonous as the Arabian desert." He deplored the "plastering of whole blocks of midtown New York with regimented patterns...
...made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M.'s aggressive, 600-man team that since 1945 has designed $2.5 billion worth of buildings from the U.S. Air Force Academy to Chicago's Inland Steel headquarters...
...while it seemed as if modern architecture, led by Chicago's Mies van der Rohe, had found the solution for the modern city: glass skin on steel skeletons combined functionalism and efficiency with esthetic discipline. But at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects in Dallas, many members were in open revolt-and two buildings made headlines last week with an eloquence of their own to support the dissenters...