Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, as he unpacked a new shipment of 22,000 tiles for the church, scowling at each damaged tile through his steel-rimmed glasses, he had a more immediate project in mind. For designing the church (without fee), French Architect Robert Erell, a Protestant, was awarded the Order of St. Sylvester by the Pope. This, according to Bureth, entitles Erell by ancient 'custom to enter St. Anne's Church on horseback. Showman Bureth is arranging to have the architect ride into church astride a horse just before the Canoemen's Mass on Whitsunday...
Drugs & Dedication. The idea first came to Oscar J. Arellano, 38, a Manila architect who witnessed the chaos in Saigon last summer, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fled down from the Communist north. Arellano thought Filipino doctors and nurses might like to help out, so he put it up to the Manila headquarters of the Philippine Junior Chamber of Commerce. "Publicity stunt," argued some Manila skeptics, but last October the first seven Filipino doctors and three Filipino nurses set out for South Viet Nam. Their average age was 25. The Filipinos first set up straw-hut clinics in eight...
ALFRED MANESSIER, 43, sometime architect from Picardy, an abstractionist (he calls his painting "supra-rational") who uses colors that glow like Rouault's. Like Rouault, Manessier underwent a religious crisis which he resolved in a brief retreat to a Trappist monastery. Manessier's subsequent work has often had a kind of vaulted Gothic mysticism...
Eliot also suggested that the landscape architect start out on his own, and not with a large firm. "It is riskier, but you know very soon whether you can do it, and you learn more quickly...
Died. Charles Donagh Maginnis, 88, veteran U.S. designer and architect of ecclesiastical buildings, e.g., the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Knight of Malta by appointment (1945) of Pope Pius XII, twice (1937 and 1938) president of the American Institute of Architects; in Boston...