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...Editors delight in pictures of paintings with the painter named; in sculptures with the sculptor named; in articles on trials with the lawyer named; in music with the composer named; in books with the author named, etc., etc. But the poor architect . . . must, alas, take a back seat to the photographer who snaps his masterpiece...
Nivola's first exhibit of his new sand castings failed to sell. But France's famed Architect Le Corbusier, then in Manhattan working on the U.N. Secretariat, visited Nivola's studio and became an enthusiastic admirer of Nivola's work. Said Le Corbusier: "A clean-cut sculptural form. . . Only plastic ideas cleanly conceived can be written in unstable sand." Other architects agreed, snapped up Nivola's idea to decorate their buildings with sand murals. Among them: Italy's Olivetti Co (typewriters and calculating machines), which commissioned a 15-ft.-by-70-ft. mural...
When Nivola was approached by Washington Architect Walter Marlowe to design the Four Chaplains Fountain he jumped at the chance. "Sardinians have a great and terrifying regard for the sea," he says. "Most of them, including myself, have never learned to swim...
...little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some of the most handsomely rococo churches in South America. On these young António Francisco worked, first as carpenter, later as architect and sculptor...
...conference, sponsored and paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, gathered to honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Marshall, described as "the most important architect of American constitutional Law" throughout the conference...