Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pairs. At no point in the drafting process for the theaters did Architect Denys Lasdun consider designing for a show of pomp, reports TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin. The priority was to make form assist theatrical function. With the Olivier Theater, in particular, consultations occurred between Lasdun and Olivier and such accomplished men of the theater as Directors John Dexter, Peter Brook and Peter Hall himself. The concept emerged of a theater in which, as Lasdun puts it, "an actor could hold an audience in the palm of his hand, and every one of them would have him in his sight...
...this aspect of Kilbridge's Deanship. Comparing the Kilbridge administration to a receivership, members suggested that Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership and pointed to the need for a new Dean to bring the School to excellence. One member said that the logical head "could possibly be" an architect but that an architect should be hired with the proviso that he can build. Another remarked that an administrative, non-professional Dean could be considered if more powerful department chairmen could be found. Several members saw that the academic qualifications of a Dean are secondary to the need to find someone...
...were Speer's claims of political naivete very credible. Could he really have become Minister of Armaments if all he wanted was to be a simple architect? Speer took that important post at the age of 37--an impressive achievement for such a young man, not what one would expect of someone who knew and cared nothing about the internal power struggles of the Nazi regime. The evidence of Speer's years with Hitler suggests that far from being an unschooled innocent in such political maneuverings, he was shrewd, resourceful, and highly ambitious...
...Duan, Italy's Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer and his Portuguese counterpart, Alvaro Cunhal. Brezhnev's speech seemed carefully crafted to convey a double message. While it extolled the benefits of détente-of which Brezhnev has been Moscow's principal architect-it implied that the Soviets are prepared to intervene almost anywhere in the world if "bid by our revolutionary conscience, our Communist convictions...
...million Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel, which opened last week, is the latest extravaganza in the career of John C. Portman Jr. Restless, driving, so egotistical that he often antagonizes his backers, Portman, 51, is an architect who not only has done more to change hoteldom than anyone since Conrad Hilton, but also is the first major talent in his profession to own as well as design buildings. His trademark is the architecture of entertainment in cities. "I have been accused of doing up a sophisticated Disneyland for adults," he says. "I plead guilty...