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...born in China and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. The architect received his master's degree from Harvard and served as an assistant professor at the School of Design from 1945-1948 before founding the New York City architectural firm of Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners. Harvard granted him an honorary degree at commencement ceremonies...
...building was designed by architect Moshe Safdie in the shape of a U, with several large meeting spaces and rooms for each of the three minyans. The inside of the U has no walls, only windows, in contrast to the old Hillel which was an almost entirely brick structure...
...supporters, like its architect Gomes, continue to be quite vocal...
...ritual enacted about an hour's drive from the site of the glittering 1992 Winter Olympics reprised similar cult sacrifices that took place 14 months earlier. And among the victims were some of the most privileged, responsible members of society. Besides the police officers, the woman psychotherapist and an architect, the dead included Patrick Vuarnet, the 27-year-old son of 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, best known today for his line of chic sunglasses. For Vuarnet fils--whose mother Edith, his woman companion Ute Verona and their daughter Tania, 6, accompanied him in death--the prerogatives...
...pointy-heads of places like New York City and Boston to dominate and define the cultural and intellectual life of our country. Here in the Seattle area, we have many excellent bookstores. We have a nationally recognized repertory theater company. We have an art museum designed by the noted architect Robert Venturi. I am sure it is stuffed with many excellent objets d'art too, although I haven't actually had the time to visit it just...