Word: architected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet. Even in his first days in office, he raised hackles among some UNIDO members by insisting that Jose Fernandez, 66, remain as president of the Philippine Central Bank. Ongpin's desire to keep Fernandez, a capable and widely respected financial expert, was eminently practical: he was a major architect of the IMF bailout scheme that saved the Philippines three years ago and will be a key player in ongoing consultations on the foreign debt...
...year later in Berlin, Mies met Architect Philip Johnson, then 24. And it was Johnson to whom Mies owed much of his latter-day American fame and fortune. Johnson organized an exhibit of modernist work at MOMA in 1932, co- authored a book on the movement and mounted a 1947 MOMA show all about Mies. Then, in the mid-1950s, Johnson helped him win the commission for the Seagram headquarters in New York City and collaborated on the design...
...MOMA exhibit does show off Mies' absolute strengths. Like Sir Isaiah Berlin's hedgehog, he had one big idea, and he thought it all the way through. No architect since has done work of such internal coherence. The openness of buildings like Farnsworth is bracing. His best designs have a simplicity that stuns, the kind of elemental integrity now sought by many younger architects, the post-postmodernists. Like millions of self-conscious moderns, though, Mies tended to equate a kind of compulsive candor with Truth. Asymmetry, architectural ornament and symbol were deemed dishonest, sentimental. His idea of order...
...different reasons, had become progressively disenchanted with his regime. Until the Camp Aguinaldo press conference, Defense Minister Enrile had shown little sign of restiveness. There had been widespread speculation, however, that he would be leaving the Marcos Cabinet. But there was no warning that the Harvard law graduate and architect of martial law would help mount a revolt. What may have tipped the scales was Enrile's discovery that officers loyal to Marcos were about to arrest opposition leaders and members of the military-reform movement. The allegation was later denied by the Philippine President...
Enrile also has a reputation for being reform-minded. Over the past two decades he has emerged as a discreet internal critic of the Marcos government, even though he was an architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...