Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tropical Brazil faces special architectural problems. The sunlight is dazzling; the air steamy. To circumvent that conjunction of the elements, Niemeyer, like other young graduates, first experimented with balconies and broad windows. Then, in 1936, a new wind swept Brazilian architectural planning. Famed French Architect Le Corbusier came along with his concrete piers and the brise-soleil (i.e., sun break). Niemeyer took to Le Corbusier's modernism as readily as an earlier generation of Brazilians had taken to France's Beaux Arts styles of the Second Empire. Most notably, he helped design a new home for the Ministry...
Sharply diverging from the views expressed by E. M. Forster, British novelist and critic, in Thursday's opening meeting, Professor Edgar Wind of Smith College suggested that a split between the critical and creative states of mind is not between men, but within the individual...
...Wind's speech brought a question from Forster in the discussion session, asking if the critic should primarily make an "aesthetic analysis," and secondarily a "judgement of the artist's responsibility" and aims, or vice versa...
...Wind Holds Fast...
According to Wind, the two cannot be separated, as the aim of the artist is part and parcel of his aesthetic means...