Word: designing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Technology, placed at the service of the church, makes possible more audacity in design. For the Benedictine monastery church of St. John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...
Tradition Updated. Technology also tempts to structural exhibitionism. Pietro Belluschi has raised a warning: "A simple church, well proportioned, is always better than an elaborate one. Church design should be an exercise in restraint, in understatement." Belluschi is equally concerned that the cult of novelty for its own sake, and the clinical clarity now fashionable in architecture, might remove from the church symbols that have both embodied and nourished faith. "People need them and live by them to a greater extent than is realized." Belluschi says...
...Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary, and no churchgoer is more than six rows from the altar rail. Last year Bishop Pike invited Architect Hammarstrom to the Pacific Coast to design a brother church, St. Anselm's in Lafayette, Calif., where some 450 parishioners assemble within the octagonal space, none more than seven rows from the altar...
...selling touch was matched by his talent for promotion and advertising. He instituted the annual Neiman-Marcus fashion design awards, which draw top designers from New York and Paris to the heart of Texas to show their originals. In his self-appointed role as the omninventoried merchant prince, Marcus window-shops Europe with his camera in search of ideas, on one trip spotted a French silk housecoat that he copied this year in chinchilla. Price: $7,950. "We haven't sold any yet," he admits, "but we've had a couple of inquiries. I like...
...master plan was drawn by Architect William L. Pereira, who did the overall design for the University of California's Santa Barbara branch. Instead of developing the Irvine ranch simply as a suburb of sprawling Los Angeles, Pereira has planned an independent, self-supporting city. The first community in the urban area (see map) will border Newport Beach, have a $150 million shopping center with garden apartments, single homes and acres of green lawns. "This community will not be dominated by the auto," says Pereira. "It will be a walking community where women can stroll to the shops with...