Word: skyscraperism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The new paintings were markedly more abstract than his earlier work. There was an architectural quality about most of them, expressed in long, vertical-lined backgrounds that gave a skyscraper dimension to his compositions. In Janitor, one of the show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with...
The words were in a new collection of Wright's essays (The Future of Architecture; Horizon Press; $7.50), which express a philosophy of building as original as it is vital. Wright early rejected the traditional concept that architecture is mainly a matter of blocks and boxes. His own buildings...
Loosely united again on the most ticklish problem now facing the U.N., the West stepped into the Assembly's big 60-nation meeting to head off a bulldozing Communist campaign to reopen the whole Korean peace conference issue and wheedle Peking into China's U.N. seat. With dispatch...
His first Madrid show in 1945 made Cossio famous overnight. His second, in 1950, secured his place as Spain's foremost living artist. The mural commission followed. Cossio took a studio atop a downtown Madrid skyscraper and established a daily routine: mornings working alone on the mural at the...
¶On Manhattan's Park Avenue, a $14 million skyscraper was being fitted with 1,800 prefabricated aluminum panels, each with two window frames. The entire job of putting up outside walls on the 26-story structure was being done in the record time of 6½ working days...