Word: skyscraperism
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Temples & Palazzi. For almost every other young architect at the time, about the only school that mattered was the Beaux Arts in Paris, which in the age of the machine was dutifully teaching the new generation how to put up Greek temples and Renaissance palazzi. But beyond the walls of...
In the U.S., Louis Sullivan had long since pioneered the skyscraper, and his famous "Form follows function" was the slogan of a new "democratic architecture" that wanted to do away with classic façades, which had nothing to do with a modern building's purpose. His young associate...
Without Pity. A subsequent trip was an even greater disaster than the first. In 1947 he was invited to serve on an international committee of architects who were to design the U.N. headquarters. Setting up shop on the 21st floor of the RKO building, he threw himself into the job...
Lewis Mumford has probably staked out as good a claim as any to being the U.S.'s leading critic of its cities, towns and cultural highways and byways. In the 1920s, when Van Wyck Brooks was discovering the unrecognized richness of the U.S. literary past and Poet Hart Crane...
A Chat on the Phone. With the Russians happily surveying their handiwork, Adlai Stevenson decided that still tougher words were needed if Moscow was to get the point. That afternoon he picked up a phone in a small office high in the U.N.'s glass and steel skyscraper, got...