Word: saarinens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rohe's Manhattan Seagram Building. It chronicles the mass move to the suburbs by displaying a variety of housing, ranging from Rafael Soriano's garden apartments in Los Angeles to the up-to-date housing of Levittown, Pa. and suburban shopping and industrial centers, e.g., Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit...
...next breath, told of a windfall already harvested. The gift: $15 million from the Old Dominion Foundation established by Financier Paul Mellon. Yale '29. It will be used to strengthen the residential college system, add two new colleges. Architect for preliminary site and design studies: Eero Saarinen...
...giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions for a repertory theater and a museum-library...
That is quite a story on Edward Stone. From the raves of Wright and the squawks of Saarinen and Johnson, it would seem Ed Stone has broken the international style barrier. More power...
...grille become a cliche and a cover for bad architecture? Says Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson: "The New Delhi embassy? How could I help but love it? It's a jewel! But architecture is more than putting up drapes in front of a house to hide it." Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME Cover, July 2, 1956) feels that the New Delhi embassy "marks a new turning point toward stateliness and dignity," but also thinks that "the best thing that could happen to Ed Stone is for his friends to take him down on the floor and wrestle his grilles away from...