Word: skyscraperism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By virtually every measure, 1955 showed the flowering of American capitalism. With barely 6½% of the world's population the U.S. turned out well over 60% of its goods. Across the land the signs of limitless bounty were evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where...
Many of the younger Latin American architects finish off their studies at U.S. universities, but so far, U.S. influence shows up chiefly in technical details like plumbing and elevators, in living-space layouts and the general addiction to the skyscraper principle. Main inspiration for Latin America's new architectural forms...
The remaining 40 percent of the College comes under the influence of the New York skyscraper, since three such monsters on the campus house 500 undergraduates each.
Time to Decide. Stevenson's friend, former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, invited 100 newsmen covering the Governors' Conference to Chicago's swank skyscraper Tavern Club for drinks and dinner. Afterwards, Stevenson stood up and began to read from prepared notes.
Herbert Ferber, 49, dentist turned sculptor, welds together forms as spiny as cactus and as flowing as underwater foliage. Seymour Lipton, 51, also uses curved and unfolding plant forms to give a sense of enclosed space that, to Sculptor Lipton, suggests a "togetherness . . . of feeling and meaning, of inside and...