Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Edward Durell Stone, 56, and for the first time he was seeing, nearly completed, the building he had created. One of the profession's freest spirits and by general consensus the most versatile designer and draftsman of his generation, Ed Stone was a pioneer modernist. He early set his mark on such buildings as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres...
Willows in the Amphitheatre. It was the note of exuberance and freshness in Stone's latest work that convinced the American Institute of Architects committee, charged with finding an architect for the U.S. State Department, that Stone was the man to design the Brussels pavilion. When he first visited the site two years ago, it was little more than a grassy, willow-studded park, staked out in a triangular plot, between the areas reserved for Vatican City and the U.S.S.R. Characteristically, he began sketching his design on the spot, seized on the site's natural amphitheater contours...
...glitter to the interior. Stone hung a mesh of thousands of sparkling, gold-anodized aluminum disks from the lower spokes of the roof. The hub, a tension ring 63 ft. across and weighing 25 tons, is dramatically suspended in midair and open to the sky above the central pool. To give the structure the maximum look of lightness, a trellis of light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn...
Under the Wire. Good luck marked the U.S. Pavilion from the start. The World's Fair U.S. Commissioner-General Howard S. Cullman credits Stone's early planning, even before a final budget figure was available, with giving the U.S. the fast start that "was the difference between make or break." Belgium's top contractor, Emile Blaton. made the project his particular baby. As a result, the U.S. Pavilion, one of the last to get started in Brussels, is among the first to be completed. Even more remarkable is the fact that Architect Stone stayed within...
...exhibits for display within the gigantic Stone showcase have already raised the cry of scandal from art critics who object to showing American primitives and North American Indian art plus younger U.S. painters to art-sophisticated Europeans. But U.S. fair officials are hoping that a mixture of candor, humor, friendliness and a generous display of such technological gadgetry as closed-circuit TV, a quizmaster IBM machine, and fashion shows, will win friends for the U.S. To do this the U.S. will have to work out some way to stay within the already strained overall budgetless than a fourth...