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LIFE at the Met Museum: Eisenstaedt Captures the Collection
In March 1939 LIFE magazine celebrated The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with an eight-page article featuring photographs of objects and artifacts from the renowned collection by the great...
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Architect Mies van der Rohe and the Poetry of Purpose
Poets, Shelley famously wrote, “are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Of course, as a poet himself, the great Romantic might have been slightly biased in his own, and in his fellow bards’,...
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Empire State Building: The One and Only
On the afternoon of April 30, 2012, steelworkers put in place the first column on the 100th floor at One World Trade Center, a.k.a., the “Freedom Tower,” and just like that, New York City once again...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Natural
Ask any ten people on the street to name an architect — any architect, living or dead — and chances are pretty good that most would reply, “Frank Lloyd Wright.” It’s hardly surprising, of course, that...
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Penn Station, 1963: Walker Evans’ Portraits of a Doomed American Treasure
One of the enduring cultural battles fought in the Unites States — and in countless other countries, as well — over the years involves the forces of “progress” arrayed against proponents of...
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Bucky Fuller Forever: LIFE Salutes an American Visionary
By DAVID PESCOVITZ I don’t live in a geodesic dome. There’s no Dymaxion car in my garage (unfortunately, on both counts). And no Dymaxion map is likely to strengthen my embarrassingly poor grasp of...
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Charles and Ray Eames: Simply Genius
Some things designed and built by our fellow humans are so much a part of our visual landscape that, even if they haven’t been around forever, it takes an effort of will to imagine a world without...
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Colossal: LIFE at the Birth of the Pentagon
The Pentagon — and, by extension, the U.S. military — has become such a prominent and obvious symbol of American might over the years that it’s easy to forget that the world’s largest office building...
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The Men Who Designed the United Nations: Portrait of Impossible Dreamers
In the troubled wake of World War II, people around the globe came together to form the United Nations (UN), an international body tasked with maintaining peace and security. The UN wanted to distance...
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