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11 hours ago · The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The institution was conceived in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , Lillie P. Bliss , and Mary Quinn Sullivan .
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11 hours ago · The Arabic word tasawwuf (lit. ' 'Sufism' '), generally translated as Sufism, is commonly defined by Western authors as Islamic mysticism. [18] [19] [20] The Arabic term Sufi has been used in Islamic literature with a wide range of meanings, by both proponents and opponents of Sufism. [18]
11 hours ago · William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), Modernist poet (Puerto Rican mother) [159] X. Emanuel Xavier (born 1971), poet and author (Puerto Rican father) Z. Manuel Zeno Gandía (1855–1930), writer; wrote La Charca, the first Puerto Rican novel [160]
11 hours ago · Richard Rogers (1933–2021), architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), architect and theoretician. His book The Architecture of the City (1966) is a classic of modern architectural theory. Giuseppe Samonà (1898–1983), architect and urban planner. One of the most ...
11 hours ago · Many Modernist-inspired town centres are today being redeveloped: Bracknell town centre is an example. However, in the immediate post-War years many thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of council houses in vernacular style were built, giving working-class people their first experience of private gardens and indoor sanitation .
11 hours ago · 1955 heralded in a new era of architecture with the publication of "On the elimination of excesses in the design," which eventually ended the neoclassical period and integrated the city architecture into modernist, minimalistic Soviet trends. [172] In 1966, a new master plan for the city was created due to the city's rapid growth. [118]
