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Perhaps the most surrealistic vision of how to cope with a nuclear war is offered by Mark Hacker, a graduate student in architecture at Princeton University. He has designed the ultimate fallout shelter: an underground city, complete with apartments and trolley cars, for 30,000 people. The metropolis would be...
Architecture is an art in the service of the power it houses, and Speer, the upper-middle-class son and grandson of architects, was a smooth courtier. His stern father (John Gielgud) despised the Nazis from the start for their socialism rather than their nationalism, but Albert felt no foreboding...
A sentence of Ralph Waldo Emerson's is sometimes like that: the mind held at an unexpected angle ... a sudden burst of lovely blue light. It is not a transcendental illumination, exactly. Transcendentalism was a short-lived American moonshine. Emerson's light is brighter. It glows with an...
The Knoxville International Energy Exposition is not a great and important fair like the great and important World's Fairs. The first of these was held in 1851 in London, where 14,000 exhibitors displayed the wonders of a new industrial age. The greatest wonder of all was the...
Later World's Fairs-St. Louis (1904), San Francisco (1915), Chicago (1933-34), New York (1939-40 and 1964-65), Brussels (1958), Montreal (1967) and Osaka, Japan (1970)-never achieved the cultural and architectural importance of those early ones. Both New York fairs were gaudy happenings that turned architecture...