Stucco worked well for the Mayas, built much of Rome, and covers San Diego Two factors helped bring the artistic use of stucco to a halt: modernism, with its emphasis on simple, unbroken planes, and …
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Jack in the Box restaurant, c. early 1970s
Posted March 30, 1995
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Russell Forester, the architect of Jack in the Box
McDonald’s, once known for its exuberant golden twin parabolas flanking a glass-and-steel pavilion, is now the most boring recitation of mansardism. Only the Wienerschnitzel chain still clings to its defining, red-roofed mini-A frames.
March 30, 1995