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Minoru Yamasaki, renowned Detroit architect, traces his architectural philosophy to two distant cultures--Renaissance Italy and his father's native Japan. Born in Seattle the son of a shoe salesman, Yamasaki drew much of his inspiration from a trip to Japan...
...Adenauer's maneuvers. Free Democrat Leader Erich Mende angrily warned he would topple the coalition government by withdrawing his support if Adenauer went back on his pledge to quit. Nor were CDU party members any happier. At CDU meetings all over the country, members demanded that Erhard, brilliant architect of Germany's prosperity, be clearly designated Adenauer's successor. When one politician introduced Erhard and spoke of his "future leadership" at a rally in Berlin's Sportpalast last week, a crowd of 7,000 cheered wildly...
Died. Major General Eric Fisher Wood, 73, Pennsylvania architect who fought in the French. British and U.S. armies in World War I, and after the Armistice helped found the American Legion; after a long illness; in Bedford...
...Abramovitz, the architect for Lincoln Center's first constituent, has presided over a pleasing and very successful mingling of art and science. He began the evolution of Philharmonic Hall in 1957 and proceeded through almost a hundred designs in over a thousand renditions, before the final plan was established...
...Room for Standees. The crowds that made their way past the surrounding rubble to last week's concerts entered a nine-story hall designed by Architect Max Abramovitz, its glass sides framed by 42 columns faced with travertine, its main foyer rising almost 50 ft. and dominated by a five-ton "space sculpture," still unfinished, by Richard Lippold. With 2,646 seats (with holes on the underside to absorb sound), Philharmonic Hall is 114 seats smaller than Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, and it provides no room for standees. But the opening gave New York two major concert halls...