Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marcel Proust, transported at night from Paris to the sea in a favorite taxicab. Helleu is said to have been, in part, the inspiration for the painter Elstir in Proust's great A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Helleu often visited the U.S., saw much of the Francophile architect Whitney Warren. Warren got Helleu to design the starry blue heavens which can still be seen, faded and streaked, on the main ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...
...house where Louise Randall lived as a child stood above the bridge in Quincy, Mass. H. H. Richardson, great American architect, built it. In the warm haze of New England's Indian summer, life there was magical...
...architect (who sees "as many as time and mutual whereabouts allow"): ". . . The Princeton type ... is neither as crabby nor as derisive as the Yale type nor as 'superior' as the Harvard type...
...competition for the Temple's design was won by the late New Jersey architect Louis Bourgeois, a Bahá'i believer. Bourgeois took ship to the Holy Land, showed Abdu'l-Bahá his drawings. Abdu'l-Bahá approved and set the building's cost at $1,000,000 (cost to date...
Prefabricated housing has meant many different things to many different people. Architects have designed prefabricated all-steel trailer houses, houses that would come in packages, factory-built "bubble" houses looking like brimless derbies. Prefabrication has been steadily bedeviled by technicalities, the economics of production, building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert...