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...state with a federally controlled minimum income, both for the working poor and those with no income. In order to qualify, those capable of working were required either to obtain job training or employment if available. When Moynihan departed for Harvard in early 1971, the proposal lost its architect and articulator...
When most people visit a city, they consult the regulation guidebook, dutifully trudge around to examine the local museum, the famous landmarks, and the historic sites-and then think they know all about the place. Nothing could be farther from the truth, says Richard Saul Wurman, 37, a Philadelphia architect. Only when Americans really understand the thrust and logic, or illogic, of their cities can they start to improve the urban mess around them...
...Apollo 14 with maps and diagrams clearer than any ever used to describe the location of a new highway on earth," says Wurman. "We talk in numbers we can't comprehend and about sizes we can't visualize." All of which has led the plump, bearded architect to try to fill the need himself. He and Fellow Architect John Gallery have just written a guidebook to his own home town...
...supports for heavy machinery. More important, however is the experience of the space as space itself--the equivalent of a five-story, unobstructed surge from the student lounge at the bottom to the fifth floor studios on top. There is an obvious visual contact at all levels. However, the architect's vision encompassed much more. The stairways running up either side connecting the five levels were meant to facilitate social contact as well...
Before Seferi took over at the UFS, the director supervised two projects annually, and the remaining ones were usually handled by a paid outside supervisor. Last year, Seferi directed five of the six projects herself, and a volunteer architect assumed responsibility for the sixth...