Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, we were refugees and wanted to stay as such," says Manolo Reboso (no kin to Richard Nixon's good friend Bebe Rebozo). "We were thinking of returning to Cuba immediately." Reboso fought at the Bay of Pigs and later returned to Miami to work as an architect. "The Cuban community," he says, "is now looking for a political voice," and Reboso is proof that it is finding one. Last November he won a seat on the city commission and was promptly named to a one-year term as vice mayor...
...loyal as that of Spínola's; he is also considered a better politician than his predecessor. The real winner in last week's shake-up is undeniably Gonçalves, 53, a quick-tempered, idealistic former army engineer who is widely regarded as the principal architect of the April 25th revolution. Says one longtime political observer in Lisbon: "Gonçalves has about him a little bit of the style of the evangelist missionary who is committed to saving people's souls whether they want...
Though Leonardo was, as everyone knew, chemist and physicist, mechanical engineer, musician, architect, anatomist and botanist as well as painter, it is not wholly possible to draw a dividing line between art and science in his work. Painting was to him a method of inquiry into the world's structure; it was the empiricism of sight itself. He tended to regard it as the queen of the sciences. His scientific work (on water, wind and their catastrophic powers, for instance) was presented in drawings of ravishing subtlety. Their purely descriptive intent in no way affects their aesthetic power...
...Labor Party's hopes for union cooperation were further dashed by the fact that the strikers are members of the Transport and General Workers' Union, whose leader, Jack Jones, is the chief union architect of the social contract. Although Jones is regarded as one of Britain's most influential and respected union leaders, he has been unable to persuade the strikers to return to work...
Hassan Fathy is an Egyptian architect whose life was completely changed in one moment of revelation. It happened when he visited the unspoiled Nubian village of Gharb Aswan on the Upper Nile. What he saw there, he later wrote, was "a way of building that was a natural growth in the landscape, as much a part of it as the palm tree." Sight led to insight. Fathy recognized that traditional architecture, unlike modern industrial architecture, is compatible with "God's environment" of nature, climate and materials. He never looked back...