One hundred years ago, decorative styles like Victorian and Art Deco prevailed as architecture emerged as "art, " much like early web design.
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But whatever the contradictions of a life designed to provoke and dazzle, Philip Johnson ceaselessly promoted architecture as the art that has shaped the great monuments and cities of history, and he sincerely believed that we owe the future a legacy of equal value.
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His dedication to the art that was central to his existence, his proselytizing zeal for new work that pushes concept and practice beyond existing limits, his driving belief in architecture as the defining art of the present and the past, did much to re-establish a sense of the importance of the way we build in an age that worships the beauty of the bottom line.
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Mr. Oldenburg thinks of his public art as "a step into architecture" and always insisted on permanence his public art was meant to last, like a building.
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So Ms. Deitz became the editor, a role that complemented her own writing as a critic of art, architecture and landscape design.
As the founder and longtime head of the Museum of Modern Art's pioneering Department of Architecture and Design, Johnson had introduced Modernism to America as the International Style in the now landmark 1932 exhibition done in collaboration with the historian Henry Russell Hitchcock.
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Though he could not read their hieroglyphic script, Evans was convinced by the remains of their art and architecture that the Minoans were every bit as brilliant and sophisticated as the classical Greeks.
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Erected in one of the busiest areas in Helsinki the chapel looks like a giant wooden bowl that has accidentally landed in the heart of the city and feels almost like a piece of conceptual art -- architecture with spiritual and intellectual connotations -- as sacred buildings should, of course.
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Although NYC embraces its image as the centre of the global contemporary art scene, it has supported neither adventurous architecture nor landscape architecture.
In Athens, meanwhile, Oliaros is working to revive a troubled inner-city neighborhood known as Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio (KM), an urban-renewal initiative that involves architecture, art and local activism.
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Long before the storm, Ripple and his partners had established their firm as a highly respected regional player in architecture and design -- jointly renovating and expanding the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Fair Grounds Race Course and the Aquarium of the Americas.
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