Volume 11, Number 4
Winter 2008-09

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Departments
10 Editor’s Word
13 Mailbox
FeatUres 16 In the Museums
34 Carlos Diniz 20 Modern Times news, people, products
Visualizing architecture
This talented artist’s pre-construction
illustrations of major architectural projects

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helped to shape the public’s conception
of modernism.
By Nicholas Olsberg
44 Cranbrook and the Genesis of
American Modernism
Cranbrook Academy of Art became a power-
house of innovative design at midcentury.
By Kim Carpenter
72 Close Up revising rietveld
Rietveld’s descendents are making more of
his designs available to the public.
By David Sokol

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80 City Report
starchitecture: saving modernist Hollywood
By Beth Edwards Harris
88 Shelf Life
Houses: Inside, Outside and all around
52 Tales of the Unexpected
By Sandy McLendon
Gerrit rietveld at expo 58
His late career contributions to the Dutch
90 Where to Buy Modernism
Pavilion demonstrate the acclaimed modernist’s
lifelong commitment to creative exploration.
94 Advertisers’ Index
By André Koch and Peter Wever
96 The Back Page
62 Spaces
the modern White House
suspended in time:
By Sandy McLendon
marcel Breuer in France
The dramatic, sculptural lines of Breuer’s only
residential design in France were the fulfill-
ment of a long-delayed design experiment.
On the cover Maison Sayer (1972–73) by Marcel Breuer, near
By Kristina Raderschad
Deauville, France. Photograph by Christian Schaulin.
Photography by Christian Schaulin
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