Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranges from Brasilia's tiny Dom Bosco roadside shrine to the huge Quintadinha project for Petropolis: a vast, curved apartment house 33 stories high and 1,380 ft. long, designed to house 5,700 families. With Costa he sketched the 1939 New York World's Fair Brazilian Pavilion. He became Brazil's delegate to the U.N.'s architectural board, designed a sector of West Berlin and a suburb of Havana...
...small Circarama theater in the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, a white-haired man sat expressionless, arms folded, as the circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President...
...world like a banker doing his civic duty, Belgium's ex-King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting...
...farm this spring we hauled off a beautifully weird collection of burned-out furnace grates and twisted baling-wire arabesques-dumping them in a cow pasture against a tree. The effect is much the same as that conveyed by the U.S. grotesquerie of steel birds ranged about the U.S. Pavilion's pool and tree...
Said one American observer, noting that many foreign visitors are first bewildered, then bored by the U.S. exhibit: "Admittedly, developing a coherent theme out of the complex U.S. life is a tougher job than any of these. But it seemed to me the U.S. Pavilion has failed even to make an intelligent...