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...training. The way I make films is the only way I know." But he knows his mad method works, in large measure because of two men who have been his closest collaborators on most of his films. William Chang, the editor, production designer and costume designer, is both the architect and the first critic of Wong's vision. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle matches the director's artistry and energy with a luscious camera style that sees beyond surfaces into essences. He takes ravishing pictures of troubled souls...
...Bloomsbury group, notably that of Virginia Woolf; in Sissinghurst, England. His best-known work, Portrait of a Marriage - based on a memoir by his mother, novelist Vita Sackville-West, found after she died in 1962 - chronicles his parents' devoted, if unconventional union. DIED. EDWARD LARRABEE BARNES, 89, architect whose functional houses and skyscrapers represented a humane approach to the sleek Modernist style; in Cupertino, California. A proponent of simplicity in design, he once said that most architectural ideas could be expressed on the back of an envelope...
...Hark was intended to serve as a student center when architect Walter Gropius designed the two-story building in his trademark “function-over-form” Bauhaus style of architecture in the 1950s...
...contributed by Indian tribes.) Inside and out there are passages in this building good enough to bear comparison to the suavely rippling walls of Alvar Aalto, the great Finnish apostle of forms derived from nature. They bring to mind even more strongly the work of Douglas Cardinal, architect of the lyrical swells of the Canadian Museum of Civilization near Ottawa. It was Cardinal, a Blackfoot, who won the original commission in 1993 to design the American Indian museum, in affiliation with other architects, only to be dismissed from the project five years later in a bitter dispute over deadlines...
...Manhattanites who missed out on Meier's foray will have another shot at the comforts of home--walls of undulating glass, private bowling alleys, state-of-the-art everything. In addition to another Meier tower, three high-end condo projects are in the works. For his first apartment building, architect Charles Gwathmey is transforming a former parking lot in Greenwich Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building's multifaceted exterior is chiseled like a precious stone--befitting the multimillion-dollar lofts inside. Further south, just across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, the landmark...