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...Five years ago, the wife of the late architect Eero Saarinen bought one of Nagare's works. Soon foreign admirers-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Minoru Yamasaki-boosted him until he had more buyers in the U.S. than in Japan. When he finally caught on in his native land, he became the rage so rapidly that he had to hide from acclaim. When Yamasaki asked how to reach him, Nagare replied, "You can't. I move from farmhouse to farmhouse out in the country to run away from Japanese architects who want...
...ride and sail, get away to Europe for at least two months almost every year. A trim and distinguished-looking man who likes expensive suits and first-class living, Hewitt collects art and is hipped on architecture. The company's new headquarters, designed by the late architect Eero Saarinen, is a striking seven-story steel-and-glass building set on a lake-gouged out by tractors...
...school was deep in the red, and Griswold smoothly made himself a crack fund raiser. He more than tripled endowment to $375 million, launched a $69.5 million capital-funds campaign, put $75 million into 26 new buildings, gave Gothic Yale a bold new look with daring designs by Eero Saarinen and other top modern architects. To emphasize liberal education, Griswold gave Yale College control of all 4,000-odd undergraduates, including the once separatist engineering students. To spur Yale scholars, he set up research fellowships for young teachers, more than doubled faculty salaries; top professors...
Pacesetter of the "soaring" design was the late great Eero Saarinen's TWA building at New York's Idlewild. Washington also went soaring with Saarinen in its new Dulles International Airport. Latest to soar is the most air-served city for its size in the U.S. No fewer than seven air lines have been pumping people in and out of Las Vegas through one of the shabbiest airports in the land. But last week's crop of gamblers, conventioneers, vacationers and divorcers found themselves arriving and departing through a $4,500,000 air, terminal that looked...
...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...