Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line on Humphrey's career are persuasive. His position on Vietnam was no small blot on an otherwise brilliant record--to the contrary, attitudes on the war must be considered central in the assessment of anyone who held high office during those years. Humphrey may not have been an architect of the war policy but in playing the role of supporter he implicated himself in some of its ugliest facets: fudging reports of fact-finding trips, referring to "our finest hour," condoning the clubbings in the streets of Chicago...
...choice of an architect was crucial. Before coming to Citicorp, Muller had been in charge of real estate and construction at Harvard. There he had come to know and admire Hugh Stubbins, who designed the college's Loeb Drama Center and its Countway Library of Medicine. In line with the bank's desire for a "humane" building, Stubbins proposed to loft an aluminum-faced structure on huge columns 112-ft. tall, thus creating the space for the shopping area and atrium, a sunken entrance plaza with a waterfall tumbling down from street level, a renovated subway station...
Stubbins was also the architect for the church, which has five entrances from the street or the plaza. None have steps. This was Pastor Peterson's idea. "I wanted Saint Peter's to be related to the side walk," he explains. "We're all handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior...
...representative -Assistant Secretary of State Alfred Atherton-to Sadat's Cairo summit. The tone of Carter's endorsement suggested to some that he was seeking to counter press criticism that Washington, now in the unaccustomed position of being a bystander to Middle Eastern events rather than the architect of them, was discouraging rather than helping Sadat's peace initiative...
Miller had already set the example by hiring Eliel's architect son, Eero, a friend since they studied together at Yale in the 1930s, to build what would become one of the country's first banks with all-glass walls and an atrium-like interior. The town fathers soon followed Miller's cue, recruiting famous architects to design eleven stunning new schools, including an octagonal brick, glass and wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which...