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...most organizations, an individual or board has the last word on decisions, especially one this controversial. Yet nobody claims authorship of the decision to install the new machine--neither the curator nor the project's main architect. Technical advice was provided by Ingéni, an air-systems consultancy firm based near Paris, which had designed systems for supermarkets and museums but had no experience with caves. "We proposed a system, and that's what they chose," says the firm's managing director, Michel de la Giraudičre. "I don't know why they favored an active system over a passive...
...sort out the competing claims because there still has been no independent judgment of what went wrong and whether it is being put right. The committee the Ministry of Culture created to perform that task is made up of most of the bureaucrats responsible for the damage, including the architect who installed the climate system, the curator who oversaw the installation project and the lab director. How such a committee can arrive at unbiased answers is "a good question," admits Marc Gauthier, an expert on the Gallo-Roman era and the committee's chairman. But he says the process...
...members fumed after Summers seized control in 2004 of an SPH professor’s federal grant to fight AIDS in Africa. And Summers’ decision to appoint political scientist Alan A. Altshuler as dean of the Graduate School of Design rankled professors who would have preferred an architect...
...says, was the cheapest that could be bought, and “he would think nothing of the fact that his suit was older than his children.”The first Wednesday of every month, he would lunch with a group of friends: an episcopal priest, an architect, the head of a homeless coalition.As he traveled, he kept up a steady correspondence with friends, many of whom have bundles of his letters. Bingham was thoughtful, coming to help Runyon’s wife clear out the brush around their rural home with his chainsaw. “One Christmas...
...abutting the Wall, the last stop in West Berlin before the Iron Curtain. The new building celebrates its renewed role as the focal point of the reunified metropolis. "We drew on the fact that Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was the center of Berlin, the embodiment of a lively city quarter," says architect Jürgen Hillmer of German firm Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. And lively it will be again. Even after the soccer fans are gone, an estimated 300,000 people are expected to pass through the station daily...