Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the trouble may have been the absence of Chou Enlai, 77, the co-architect of Sino-American rapprochement, who is desperately ill with heart disease. Both Chiao and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who appears to be running China on a day-to-day basis, are facing increasing complaints from some of their colleagues about the Washington connection. Observers note also that Kissinger and Teng seem to actively dislike each other...
...there's a snag that will turn even the most inveterate Harvard supporters on the board against the split site proposal, it's probably in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Although one of the assistants to library architect I.M. Pei says that Building 36 is "an excellent site" with exciting shore-line possibilities, it is difficult to camouflage the building's and the Yard's most obvious flaws. Just the massive overhaul that is necessary to make Charlestown workable makes Harvard's trump card the lowest of its suit...
...Briefly, what I am trying to do now," architect Charles A. Coolidge wrote Eliot in August 1902, "is take as much expense as possible out of the building which the College pays...
...ivory-tower thinkers, the Latin American liberation theologians developed their ideas while working among those poor. Their bitter analysis first caught wide public attention in a conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín, Colombia, in 1968 that denounced "institutionalized violence" in Latin American society. The principal architect of the unprecedented statement was a Peruvian priest named Gustavo Gutiérrez, an old friend of Camilo Torres and theological adviser at Medellín. He later wrote A Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books), the movement's most influential text...
...freestanding works are with nature. There are half a dozen recent Aalto buildings in central Helsinki that seem as austere and reserved as the surrounding streetscape - until one notices the little surprises and grace notes. On one shaded facade of an Aalto-designed bookstore, for example, the architect framed every window with white marble to give the cheery illusion of more light than actually exists. His U-shaped headquarters for the Enso Gutzeit paper company steps down to a startling courtyard between its wings. But Aalto deliberately turned the building's bland flat sides to its 18th century neoclassic...