Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conviction of the government of India that our interests are complementary. What happens in the subcontinent is important for all of Asia. We hope for an improvement. We certainly have left no stone unturned. Mr. Bhutto [President of Pakistan] told me in Simla that he was the architect of confrontation with India, but that it had got Pakistan nowhere. He admitted that there was nothing to be gained from confrontation, and so many advantages from friendship...
...disastrous results to his purse) in publishing. His career as a planner and designer spanned more than a generation, from his appointment in 1857, at age 35, as the superintendent of an as yet undesigned Central Park to his retirement in 1895. Throughout, Olmsted was known as a landscape architect. This "miserable nomenclature," as he called it, fretted him; but what else could Olmsted call himself? "For clearness, for convenience, for distinctness," he complained, "you do need half a dozen new technical words at least." The fact that his culture had no exact name for his work is an interesting...
Wilson said Kissinger's role as architect for the Nixon Administration's Indochina policy "does not play any part" in the Department's decision. "The overiding consideration here is whether he can contribute intellectually to the University," he said...
...there were few jobs to be had in Depression-worn Berlin, so Breuer moved on to Zurich and then to England. There, he joined a pioneer modernist, London Architect F.R.S. Yorke, and designed in 1936 a small completely innovative pavilion at an exhibition in Bristol. Its taut glass juxtaposed with romantically rough walls of stone, it enclosed a beautifully proportioned space, and architects everywhere began to talk about Breuer. Even more striking was a project for the "Civic Center of the Future" that contained a lively assortment of innovative building shapes-Y-shaped, stepped-back and cantilevered structures, slabs, buildings...
...practicing on his own in New York by that time, his breakthrough came with a major commission in France: the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. With it, he burst out of the Bauhaus box and turned to concrete, becoming more adventurous in its use than any other U.S. architect except perhaps I.M. Pei. He faceted façades with angled, deep-set windows, niches and geometrical shapes-all enlivened by the play of sunlight against shadow. At his IBM research center in La Gaude, near the Côte d'Azur, he elevated the entire building on Y-shaped sculptural...