Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrasts with his relatively modest background. Son of a railroad auditor, he practiced law back home in St. Louis for 15 years before moving to Washington and becoming one of President Harry Truman's most intimate advisers-on law, politics and foreign policy. Clifford was a principal architect of the Point Four program, which provided economic aid to undeveloped countries, the Truman Doctrine, which helped keep Greece from falling to the Communists, and of the modern Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency. He also advised John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson on foreign policy, but refused to join the Cabinet...
Shinnecock Hills was also the trendsetter for the social exclusiveness that became characteristic of prominent clubs. It was the first course to boast a clubhouse, which ever since have become accepted as de rigeur. Moreover, the clubhouse was designed by Stanford White, the legendary architect of the period. By the turn of the century, Shinnecock had become the first American golf club to be incorporated and have a waiting list...
Next to Halprin, Architect Philip Johnson, 71, is probably the man most interested in water as art. "Modern architecture is so dull and flat in itself that architects began looking for something to enliven it-and they remembered Rome." So says the man who added fountains to the foreplaza of New York City's Seagram Building, which he co-designed with Mies van der Rohe. Johnson's most conspicuous recent water work is Fort Worth's Water Garden. The garden has three pools, each with a different speed-sound characteristic-"quiet, fizz and rush." The "quiet" pool...
...Mall in Albany, N.Y., demonstrates just how well ancient traditions can still serve architecture if the will (and the cash) is forthcoming. Architect Wallace K. Harrison, looking for a way to animate the plaza in designing the huge $1 billion-plus complex, went back to the idea of reflecting pools. And what reflecting pools they are! The largest is six hundred feet long and it sits in a park atop garages and a shopping mall. In winter part of it is frozen for skaters. Says Harrison: "It changes the feeling of the whole city of Albany...
Delays in meeting the complex rules, which must be complied with before building can start, boost costs. Says New Jersey Builder Philip Azzolina: "Two or three years ago, you took the architect's blueprint for a house to the local authority, and while you waited it was approved or rejected. If it was approved, it was stamped on the spot; you then paid the fee and got the building permit. Now you submit the plan, and in some towns it takes a month to get it approved and permission to build. Before a blueprint is passed...