Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrow stairs. Above her there was a sudden sound of thudding feet and labored breathing. At the top of the stairs, a man appeared carrying the limp body of an elderly, bald-headed man. Behind him was a man she knew well-43-year-old Heinz Glaeske, an architect who lived with his wife and mother in a third-floor apartment...
...recently released sketch of Architect Wright's palazzo (and a view of the building it would replace...
Last week in the U.S. quarterly Archaeology, a plausible solution came from an amateur: a young (31) London architect named Michael Ventris. It so happened that as a schoolboy of thirteen, Ventris heard a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans, has been fascinated by the Minoan mystery ever since. If his present solution is correct, scholars will not only have to rewrite the history of Crete, they will also have to change their ideas about the civilization of the pre-Homeric Greeks...
...served by 500 attendants, whom he boarded and housed. The money, of course, came from the people. Versailles' cost swallowed three out of every five francs collected in taxes, and nobody will ever know the price of building it. When Frangois Mansard, the King's architect, appeared with his bill, it was a shock even to openhanded Louis. He blanched, and burned the evidence...
...Pigeons. All the while. Sadakichi sharpened the talent for gratuitous insult that later so endeared him to his Hollywood buddies. When he met dapper Industrialist Henry Clay Frick, he told him to write his autobiography and call it The Tom Thumb of the Coke Ovens. Of some blueprints of Architect Stanford White he said: "To be improved upon only by pigeons, after the drawings become buildings." One figure escaped his misanthropic venom: Mary Baker Eddy. He called the founder of Christian Science "the greatest spiritual expression of the century," and was writing a verse drama about her when he died...