Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans Simons, many another native and foreign celebrity. But the most popular and interesting character was Aurelia Reinhardt herself...
...Embassy staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after an earthquake and fire, the ruins of a great building he had conceived and endeavored to erect with a solidarity that might permanently withstand the elements. Alas, the castle has crumbled about us. It is not a happy vision...
...architect, 68-year-old Saarinen believes the building of towns is an architect's job. Because he is an artist rather than a theoretician, his town planning has. followed no rigid formula. Aside from his own students, who were able to watch his deft civic surgery at first hand, few contemporaries have fully understood his method of work. To explain that method, Planner Saarinen has been writing a monumental treatise called The City. Last week the manuscript of The City was completed...
Though his own tastes in architecture are conservative (about once a year he designs and builds a prim little conventional house just for the fun of it), Kahn considers the leaders in U.S. architecture to be Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Cret and Eliel Saarinen. About his own work as architect laureate to U.S. industry, he is modestly matter-of-fact. Says he: "Architecture is 90% business...
...Richard Ney) is down from Oxford with an acute case of maturity and social consciousness. There are the youngsters (Christopher Severn and Clare Sandars). Mrs. Miniver (a suburban Candida) indulges the deliciously guilty feeling of having overspent her allowance on a gaudy hat. Mr. Miniver can overstep his architect's income for a sporty new car. Tomorrow will always balance the books...