modernism
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In the end, this is one more strand of this curious architect, whose traditional modernism is now the default vernacular for clients who do not want eye-catching signature buildings.
In the early 1960s, Ames faced fierce opposition from civic groups, who decried modernism as a threat to Balboa Park’s Spanish heart.
From Los Angeles Times
“I always feel people become more themselves when they’re in their house,” Reinsve tells me on a cloudless autumn morning at Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 premonition of California modernism.
From Los Angeles Times
Virginia depicted herself and her husband Leonard “lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s”—and so, literary modernism’s eccentric pioneer was rejected by its suavest representative.
But after settling in Manhattan in 1918, she quickly became a leading light in American modernism—and fell in love with skyscrapers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
