Word: skyscraperism
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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.
The techniques of welding and brazing are taught in high-school shop courses throughout the U.S.; the materials, iron and steel, can be found in any junkyard. The inspiration for many of the new space concepts is as easy to find: in the confused welter of the modern cityscape with...
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...