In remodeling UCLA\’s old art school building, architects Richard Meier and Michael Palladino have taken a building that was essentially a wall and made it into a window. And the view through the window is good.
Brenda Levin, associate architect for the renovation and restoration of the original Griffith Observatory building and grounds.
The paintings of Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico.
\”Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture,\” opening Nov. 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown, proposes that building design and haute couture have increasingly begun to overlap and borrow ideas from one another.
\”I wanted the movie to be a catharsis,\” says Andrea Berloff, the screenwriter of \”World Trade Center,\” the Oliver Stone-directed docudrama that opens Aug. 9. \”I\’ve felt that way from the beginning.\” The film is a surprising coup for the young writer, a soft-spoken graduate of Cornell\’s Drama School, who has never before had a script produced.
If having her script produced is a coup for Berloff, the completed film is likely to be greeted with hailstorms of discourse, not least because it seems the current spate of 9/11 movies is a reminder that films have become a primary way for Americans to digest difficult and painful events.
The cult status of The New York Times Crossword puzzle is the subject of \”Wordplay,\” an uneven but entertaining documentary by director Patrick Creadon about the people who design the fiendishly difficult crossword puzzles for The Times and the gifted eccentrics who devote their lives to puzzle solving and who compete against each other with all the fury and devotion of Olympic athletes.
Gehry\’s creative solution — his psychoanalytic victory — was to embrace the delight of free-form design, while making sure that his buildings met the needs of his clients. His freedom in designing what appear to be purely sculptural objects that subsequently win rapturous praise must make him the envy of all architects who secretly wish they could find such willing clients.
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