Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus through its progressive ideas in teaching, that the Bauhaus leaves its greatest mark. It trained not only the artist but also the craftsman, engineer, industrial designer, and architect. Through a preliminary design course, and the program of basic workshops the Bauhaus led its students to work together in solving practical problems...
...Tenant control over design represents a people's victory." John Sharratt, a project architect said last week...
HAVING LEARNED the language of pictorial hieroglyphics, Picasso elaborated his games with perception by dropping words and letters into his pasted or painted collages. Grouped together they form a telegraphic narrative of Picasso's life in Paris; "Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum" (1914) or "The Architect's Table" (a fitting description, too, of Picasso's idea of the Cubist painter as architect) evoking the bohemian conviviality of pre-war France; clippings from French or Spanism newspapers contrasting the national characteristics of a dapper "Man with a Hat" with a Spanism-speaking guitar. Picasso's use of musical motifs is evidenced...
...joggers were participating in Vita Parcours, the newest Swiss exercise craze. Invented in 1968 by Architect Erwin Weckemann, it consists of a mile-long jogging circuit with 20 designated stops suitable for installation in any convenient patch of parkland. At each of the stopping places, spaced about 500 ft. apart, a plaque instructs participants to perform a specific exercise that is repeated from two to 15 times-the hardest near the beginning of the course and the less difficult, relaxing ones scheduled toward the end. At some of the stops appropriate equipment, like chin-up bars, has been installed...
Talk about your bad marriages. Robert (Michael Caine) is a successful London architect wedded-or perhaps welded-to an aging spitfire named Zee (Elizabeth Taylor). Zee has a shape like a brioche and an armor-piercing tongue she uses to lash Robert into line. Robert loves it. He flaunts his casual affairs so that she can drown him in venom. Hatred, in fact, is the single sign of life in their relationship...