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...liberal member of El Salvador's five-man ruling junta, Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano, was removed last week after a 300-to-4 no-confidence vote by his own military officers. Majano had led the coup against Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979. He was also an architect of the junta's ambitious land-reform and banking-nationalization programs, which made him a bitter enemy of the right...
Trendy types who party in their redwood tubs built for two or four or more may be buoyed by some notion that they are making a splash in 1980s fashion. But Architect and Social Critic Bernard Rudofsky pulls the plug on all that. "Why, in the Middle Ages," says Rudofsky, "people ate their dinner, conducted business, feuded, made love and even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long...
Jose L. Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design and architect of the Science Center and Holyoke Center, last week won the 1981 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects...
Sert, the 42nd architect to win the award, said yesterday it reflects his accomplishments in "teaching and the relationship of architecture to art and people...
Before coming to the United States in 1939, Sert, who was a protege of the French architect Le Corbusier, worked in Paris and Barcelona. Among his well known European works are the Spanish Pavilion for the 1937 Paris Exposition and the Maeght Foundation in southern France...