Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Hugh A. Stubbins' "pre-preliminary studies" for the new school have indicated the advisability of closing 211 feet of the street at the Linnean St. end, according to City Manager John J. Gurry...
...Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters. He was a great mathematician, a great engineer, a great architect." ¶ Painter "Dr. Atl": "Orozco never did understand how to use color." A¶Architect Juan O'Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel...
Corruptible Wealth. By this time, Dominique had another devoted admirer, the architect and industrialist Paul Walter, whose revenues from the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent...
...prisoners were brought to the Valley as laborers, until it was found that their inefficiency and subtle sabotage were more costly than regular workers. Since 1949, an average of 700 men have been working on the monument; at one point the number rose to 2.000. To keep everyone happy. Architect Diego Mendez paid them $2 a day, twice as much as they would have earned elsewhere...
Last summer Architect Mendez suddenly became dissatisfied with the facade. In came trucks, drills and cranes, and down came the whole row of archways. Mendez also objected to the four huge lamps in the sanctuary, but when new ones were bought he objected to them too. Last week a new set of lamps was being made, work was still under way on the facade, and there was still only one lonely candidate for burial there, the Caudillo himself...