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Sergei, 25, a blond architect in a blue-and-red woolen hat, a blue parka and jeans: "It's sad, of course, on a human level that Chernenko died. I didn't expect him to go on forever, so it wasn't what I would call a shock. But politics? Well, we only have one party, which pursues one and the same course, so I can't see that it makes much difference who came before and who will come after. At least Gorbachev won't die after a year, I suppose...
Five years ago, Alfred Butts was content to be unknown as the man who invented Scrabble, one of the most popular board games of all time, with an estimated 90 million games sold over three decades. Then Butts' wife died, and the widower, who is a retired architect, found that even his own creation was no consolation since at least two people are required to play. So he went back to the tile board to see if he still had the magic touch. The result is called, appropriately, Alfred's Other Game. Related to Scrabble, though not quite zygomorphically...
Hoch Kitsch transformed into high art, that is Architect Gottfried Semper's theater. His first opera house opened in 1841, burned down in 1869; his second design, an elaboration of the first, was supervised by his son Manfred and dedicated in 1878. A whimsical intermingling of neo-Renaissance Italian design and quasiabstract German folk-art motifs, it looks like an improbable combination of the Pitti Palace and a Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse. Inside, its bright colors (whites, golds and reds) and intimate dimensions (only 1,300 seats) give it a light, cozy ambience. Trompe l'oeil reigns: columns that appear...
...although poorly designed public buildings, spaghetti-like freeway intersections and confusing graphic gobbledygook are wasteful and ugly, little attention has been paid to the problem. Says Architect Bill N. Lacy, president of the Cooper Union art, architecture and engineering school in New York City: "The U.S. is a Fourth World country when it comes to design awareness...
...winners were selected from 630 entries by a jury of experts headed by Architect I.M. Pei, whose much praised designs include the East Building of the National Gallery of Art and the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The designers present smiled politely during the awards ceremony when President Reagan mispronounced Pei's name, calling him "Pie" instead of "Pay." But they laughed when Reagan said, "Good design can help us save money, and you know how much that warms my heart." The President's interest cannot fail to shake up the bureaucracy a little. And more attention...