Word: architect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after Butler had dried his eyes, Stevenson relented, reversed his decision, and passed the word that the committeemen could go ahead and elect Butler their chairman again. It was a hollow victory. In a private conference with Butler, Stevenson made it clear that Finnegan, not Butler, would be the "architect" of the campaign. Finnegan will set up headquarters in Washington, near those of the national committee, so that there will be no "two-headed monster" like that of 1952, when Stevenson campaign offices in Springfield frequently worked at cross purposes with capital leaders. Butler's only 1956 duties: those...
This is the old American story of the clash of generations, the impact of modern life on tradition. That Author Shellabarger wrote it at a pitch of sincerity cannot be doubted. Unfortunately, he was a carpenter of fiction and not an architect. In his historicals, that fact was nearly a virtue. In Tolbecken it exposes all his built-in limitations. The story is wooden, the characters stock, and coincidence is made to do the work of imagination. Yet it is so rare to find a contemporary novelist writing in praise of character that the literary defects seem almost less important...
Your article on Architect Saarinen was very interesting. [But] what about the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright? A home created by Mr. Wright gives the feeling of shelter and the outdoors. He has incorporated the house as a whole, instead of being chopped up into separate boxes. Through the correct use of the nature of materials, organic simplicity, good structure and no imitation, he has created some of the most beautiful buildings in the world...
...Architect Saarinen and his wife and son live in a made-over, nine-room Victorian brick farmhouse of 1860 vintage, smoothed off, brightened and painted white inside, and furnished with Eero's furniture. (His mother lives on the back lot in a sleek modern house he designed to fit her favorite, handloomed, 25-ft.-long Finnish rug.) In cutting away a section of one wall to throw light on the main stairway of his old house, Saarinen has made the exterior what he considers "better Victorian than ever." The garage has been converted into a joint study, where Eero...
...modern architecture in churches is just a fad, said Church Architect Benjamin F. Olsen of Chicago, president of the Illinois Society of Architects. "It reminds me of a naughty child, standing on his head to attract attention when company comes," he said. And, he asked, what will the modern ones look like in 25 years, after the "newness has worn...