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Born: Dec. 1, 1920, in Saint-Ceré (pop. 2,547) in France's Massif Central, youngest of an architect's seven children. Baptized Pierre...
...talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
These are problems that every architect of a music auditorium has had to consider and solve, often by trial and error (many older halls have adequate acoustics because of such accidents of general design as coffered ceilings, panels, statuary, friezes, all of which helped to diffuse sound). But the chief factor that gives modern halls their characteristic clarity and brilliance is close control of reverberation, i.e., the prolongation of sound...
...building boom has raised the height of typical buildings in Caracas, Venezuela from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels by U.S. Mobile Maker Alexander Calder, have put Venezuelan Architect Carlos Raśl Villanueva in the front rank of Latin American designers. Puerto Rico boasts a well-done hotel, the Caribe Hilton, and Henry Klumb's outstanding Catholic church near San Juan...
...year-old gilded Shwe Dagon, peace-loving Nikita Khrushchev was busily easing world tensions once again. "The oldest British church," he sneered, eying the Burmese shrine, "is only 1,000 years old, yet the British call you barbarians." Then, recalling the recent unpleasantness about Moscow Chief Architect Vlasov, who was blasted by his government while visiting the U.S., he singled out another Russian architect in Rangoon to cry, "Look out, comrade, I see you are standing with American and French reporters. They may try to persuade you to stay with the West as the stupid Americans and stupid Frenchmen tried...