Sentences with phrase «leading modern architects»

In the late 1940's the US embarked on an ambitious embassy building program, employing the leading modern architects of the day.

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Dongbum Lee, Architect of Microsoft Modern Application Center leads blockchain projects across the APAC region for a diverse array of industry players.

Describing himself as «just handy,» 15 - year - old Robbie researched cat houses online and consulted with architect Randy Lyall before leading friends and fellow Scouts in a five - day construction effort that resulted in 10 modern dwellings for feral colonies.

Filled with distinctive post-World War II buildings designed by leading architects of the time, Palm Springs is America's Mid-century Modern mecca.

Since founding her first gallery in 1983 in Cologne, Germany, Monika Sprüth, a former architect, has been a leading gallerist in the field of modern and contemporary art worldwide.

Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, influencing the likes of I.M. Pei, Lawrence Halprin and Paul Rudolph, among others; Herbert Bayer organized and designed a major exhibition of Bauhaus work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1938 - 9; Mies van der Rohe relocated to Chicago, where he enjoyed the patronage of Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)- one of the most influential American architects of his day, with whom he later designed the landmark Seagram Building - and became one of the leading figures in American architecture; Moholy - Nagy also settled in Chicago and set up the New Bauhaus school with philanthropist Walter Paepcke.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art director Neal Benezra (l to r) and lead architect Craig Dykers stand in the Roberts Family gallery with the Richard Serra's sculpture «Sequence.»

Director Neal Benezra (right) and lead architect Craig Dykers (left) stand in the sculpture gallery in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art during its expansion on Thursday, October 8, 2015.

Meanwhile, a little further south, but shortly after, Venus Over Manhattan, Powered by Ferrari, will exhibit 14 cars transformed into sculptures since 1970 by leading modern and contemporary artists in their exhibition Piston Head: Artists Engage the Automobile, at 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, the dramatic open air parking structure designed by Pritzker Prize - winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.

Not everyone can bring in an architect when they're remodelling their home, so Livingetc asked Mike Stiff, of leading UK architects Stiff + Trevillion, to give us five, easy - to - follow tips as to how to give a property a thoroughly modern edge.