Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fired off a protesting telegram to Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie. The basic message could have been put in 21 words: URGE YOU BLOCK THIS AND ALL OTHER REFINERY PROJECTS ON MAINE'S COAST. ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES ARE AVAILABLE. CALL ME FOR DETAILS. But Bucky Fuller-author, architect, inventor, philosopher -operates on a grand scale. He turned to free verse, and the orotund result almost filled the entire Op-Ed page of the New York Times...
...most people, furnishing a new house or apartment is an expensive, sometimes traumatic experience-where to put the chairs, how to arrange the sofas in the conversation area, and what decorating style to choose. A growing number of architect-designers may have found the solution to these troublesome questions: no furniture at all. Man's earliest shelter was a cave with a rock to sit on, and perhaps it gave him more peace of mind than a cluttered room in a contemporary home...
...Chairs, for example, create rigid environments," explains Thomas Luckey, 31, a New Haven environmental architect. "Because chairs are in fixed locations, they limit your options as to where to sit." In most rooms that Luckey and his colleagues design, conventional furniture is replaced by lumps, bumps and other more or less organized protrusions that serve as chairs, couches, tables and shelves. "The basic formula," says Charles Moore, former dean of Yale's School of Architecture and now a practicing architect in New Haven, "is to design an environment that is relatively cheap, comfortable and useful." After that, he says...
MULTILEVEL PLATFORMS. Architect Michael Black was called in by Harold Slavkin, a Los Angeles molecular biologist, to plan a vacation house. He disposed of all furniture, building a complex of multilevel platforms covered with carpeting. Now guests sit, lie or sprawl, and flop from one tier to another as conversations catch their interest. "In a 10-ft. by 12-ft. area," says Slavkin's wife Kay, "we've had as many as twelve people in practically as many postures." Black also revamped the Slavkins' staid, traditional Los Angeles house. "The problem," he says, "was a cold, formal...
...Cambridge students live with an older director, Carl B. Schmitt Jr. '51, two priests, an architect and an astrophysicist in a large, comfortably furnished house on Follen Street...