Word: saarinens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist? Tailfins and Empire: "the Hog-stomping Baroque exuberance of American civilization." Those who did serve it were banished as apostates, and become the heroes of Wolfe's narrative: John Portman, Morris Lapidus, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone...
DIED. John Dinkeloo, 63, architect and engineer who, with associates Kevin Roche and the late Eero Saarinen, designed such celebrated works as the CBS Building in New York City, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Fredericksburg...
...writing a piece for Harper's now on architecture," he says, adding, "a sort of Painted World of architecture." He has trouble coming up with any buildings he likes: "I'm a fan of Saarinen," he says, and "a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright works." Then nothing. He has no trouble detailing what the doesn't like. That's the purpose. But architecture can't hold his entire attention at the moment. With an almost embarrassed laugh, he says, "I'm writing a novel of all things." After almost 20 years of wading in the new literary form he helped...