Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polyp is the architect of Gothic reefs of coral; And it can change its sex at will and not be thought immoral. The Polyp can be male or not, whichever is its pleasure; Or even a hermaphrodite if it can find the leisure...
...Architect Donald Barthelme designed the West Columbia elementary school, south of Houston, to allow freedom of expansion. The school is really a series of spokes which can be added to the hub at will. To save money, he eliminated corridors: pupils go from room to room through courtyards. At the hub of the school is the common room-"Just a big hall/' says Barthelme, "where kids spill in and kids spill...
...school," says Architect Richard Neutra, "is essentially a container out of which organic life can bloom." At the Kester Avenue elementary school in Van Nuys, Calif., life can bloom both indoors and out. Rooms can be made big or small with movable partitions; the furniture can be moved about for any sort of activity. "I do not consider a school only as a machine for learning," says Neutra. "It should be beautiful...
...Though classrooms line a traditional central corridor at Maine's Bar Harbor school, Architect Alonzo Harriman has been able "to bring trees and sky into the center of the building by clerestory windows." He also places small panes of brightly colored glass in the kindergarten window wall "to enable the younger children to see the outdoors in different colors." To cut costs, Harriman advocates the use of "more prefabricated units such as wall and ceiling panels, heating and ventilating units for classrooms that are completely self-contained. One of the chief causes of wasteful school building," says he, "occurs...
...commodities half an hour each morning while still in bed. He wrote a mathematical masterpiece on probability, was the darling of the avant-garde Bloomsbury set, chairman of a life-insurance company, husband of a beautiful ballerina, a governor of the Bank of England, a spectacular bridge player. "The Architect of Capitalism Viable." as Author Heilbroner calls him. Keynes also wrote an intricate book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, drastically revising Adam Smith's view of capitalism. His conclusion: the market place is not a safe place; every boom is constantly threatened with collapse, any depression...