Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Animals have been artists for millions of years, says Lancaster, although "their theories remain sealed in [their] little minds." The spider, for example, "is a marvelous craftsman . . . The common orb web is a triumph of symmetry and artistry." Then there is the ant, a master organizer, engineer and architect, and the termite, whose elaborate constructions make use of "scientific exposures to light and air, air ducts and airconditioning, concrete walls, roofs and gutters for shedding rain...
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Married. Lotte Adenauer, 28, West Germany's first lady, daughter and official hostess of widowed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Heribert Multhaupt, 32, Aachen architect; in a civil ceremony, to be followed by a Roman Catholic wedding in Bonn Cathedral on May 11; in Rhöndorf, Germany...
...Architect Breuer was chosen to design the new St. John's by a six-man committee of monks, appointed by Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, who went about their undertaking with Benedictine thoroughness. After 18 months of regular meetings, they invited a group of top architects to come to Collegeville and talk things over. Breuer's selection was based almost as much on human values as on technical ones. Said Abbot Baldwin: "He struck us as being not only an outstanding architect, but as a simple, straightforward, sincere and rather humble person...