Word: geometricism
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On the Eighth Day. Eight miles from Dr. Yadin's Cave of Letters in the Wilderness of Judah, the second archaeological team, headed by grey-haired Polish Emigré Pessah Bar-Adon, 53, dug through six feet of debris in another cave. On the eighth day, behind a smooth...
Corbu's career has been equally full of paradox. He has put up about 75 buildings (Frank Lloyd Wright built 500, Christopher Wren nearly 150). The French government has yet to commission him to design so much as a school or a hospital, and the first Le Corbusier building...
In the U.S., Louis Sullivan had long since pioneered the skyscraper, and his famous "Form follows function" was the slogan of a new "democratic architecture" that wanted to do away with classic façades, which had nothing to do with a modern building's purpose. His young associate...
As his first anniversary approached, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 31, explained how he had been spending his spare time. With old razor blades and matchsticks, Princess Margaret's husband had whiled away the hours putting together a spiky, architectural fantasy to house the London Zoo's exotic birds. Tony...
The Look of a Leg. In time, the collection ranges from a 14th century silver point* miniature drawing of an elephant and a mouse by an anonymous artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments...