Four sculptural groups mark the four corners of the large base of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. Made of travertine blocks on a reinforced concrete structure, they represent two pairs of Dioscuri, the mythical sons of Zeus also known as Castor and Pollux.
“The eyes of the Fair are on the future—not in the sense of peering toward the unknown nor attempting to foretell the events of tomorrow and the shape of things to come, but in the sense of presenting a new and clearer view of today in preparation for tomorrow; a view of the forces and ideas that prevail as well as the machines.”
“In all Wars, since the beginning of History, there have been men who fought twice. The first time they battled with club, sword or machine gun. The second time they had none of these weapons. Yet this by far, was the greatest battle. It was fought with abiding faith and raw courage and in the end, Victory was achieved. This is the story of such a group of men. To them this film is dedicated.”
The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by Le Corbusier. It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial and the metric systems. It is based on the height of a man with his arm raised. Modulor considered the standard human height as 1.75 m, excluding feminine measures. The dimensions were refined with overall height of raised arm set at 2.26 m.
Stephen Lester Reeves was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing the protagonist as muscular characters such as Hercules, Goliath, and Sandokan. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe.
Yannis Tsarouchis was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including soldiers, sailors, and nude males. Although during his early years he experimented with the various styles of the avant-garde (Cubism, Surrealism, Abstraction), his style finally shifted towards a realistic classicism where all these influences merged.
It was written mostly in 1945 and first published anonymously in 1947. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Georges Querelle, its protagonist, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit.
This unrealized project for a new American Broadcasting Company headquarters was a sixty-story office tower in Manhattan. The proposal was a complex circular structure which resembled a set of bundled tubes. Goldberg clustered related “companies” and knitted them together, arranging interior space. The various clusters were organized around a communal space in the center for joint enterprises.
The Esposizione Universale di Roma, scheduled to open in 1942 and dubbed E42, was to celebrate twenty years of Fascism and the revival of the Roman Empire. Under the direction of Marcello Piacentini, Mussolini’s chief architect, EUR, named with the initials of the exposition, was designed to be an ideal suburb, with showcase Fascist buildings and an elaborate system of lakes, parks, and gardens, extending Rome toward the sea, a long-cherished dream of Mussolini.
The Marine City projects by Kiyonori Kikutake, designed between 1958 and 1963, are the first and most influential proposals to build ‘Megastructures’ into the sea after the dissolution of C.I.A.M. They include two basic types: the ‘Floating Structure’ as a concentric and city-scale type, and the ‘Linear Ocean City’ as a linear and national-scale type.
It is located at the Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Plaza), to the east of the National Congress of Brazil and across from the Supreme Federal Court. It is one of the official palaces of the Presidency, along with the Palácio da Alvorada, the official residence.
“She was crying. I was very nervous. I touched her arm and said, ‘This could be a disaster or be great. My inspiration was in my head. In America, I had seen a box of Florida oranges that had a picture of a little boy with a bob haircut on it. It reminded me a bit of the Beatles.” Julien d'Ys
Bodybuilder and actor Reg Lewis was born in Niles, California, on January 23, 1936. He began bodybuilding at a young age, winning his first title at age 17. Lewis jump-started his career with the assistance of actress Mae West who, in 1954, enlisted a gym full of bodybuilders.
"Guardián de la sala del trono: un caballero con armadura metálica, estilizadísimo, defiende el lugar y prohibe el paso, vigila." José Quetglás
For over four years, Bruce Weber photographed one subject: Peter Johnson. What began as a photographic journey to document Peter's transition from childhood to adulthood led to the making of Chop Suey, a very personal film akin to a film diary or scrapbook, while at the same time a tribute to all the things the filmmaker loves most.
In 1942, the Eameses pondered how molded plywood could address a serious problem the Medical Corps was struggling to solve: The standard metal splints used to brace wounded World War II servicemen were causing further injuries due to the vibrations in the metal during transport. Within one year, Charles and Ray produced their first Molded Plywood Splint using a wood-bending contraption they invented known as the Kazam! machine.
The writer Hervé Guibert died at thirty-six in 1991, a year after revealing his AIDS diagnosis in his autobiographical novel. His disclosure made him a prominent face of AIDS awareness in France. Despite his prolific writing career, Guibert's work often oscillated between melodrama and reflection, emphasizing his intimate connection to photography alongside writing, highlighting his series of self-portraits.