Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richardson sketched only an ideogram for his buildings--a tiny undetailed fat-lined freehand drawing that the huge architect would work on from his sickbed. His assistants did the rest, under his careful eye. Richardson's studio was the first important group of architects to work under the atelier system in which even mature architects were subordinate to a single man acknowledged as the single genius of the firm. Other architects--most notably Frank Lloyd Wright--have worked the same...
Brett Donham '60, M. Arch '64, is an architect in Boston. He spent his youth in Neighborhood 10, lived in Agassiz during graduate school, and is now a resident of Neighborhood...
...Before a reception and a state dinner in honor of Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky last week, the White House social office revealed that bachelors asked over to the Fords' are encouraged to bring a date. The result: faces not seen around the White House in years. Architect Philip Johnson brought Lee Radziwill, and U.P.I. Reporter Richard Growald escorted Barbara Howar, who has been in exile since the Johnsons banished her eight years ago. Unrepressed as ever, Barbara announced that she had pinched matches, menu and program card as souvenirs. She also asked Nancy Kissinger: "Are you pregnant...
...James Wood writes in his catalogue essay, "To deal with Max Bill solely as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist is to make a distinction which he never made in his work: the distinction between Fine Art and the other areas of his activity." Bill has practiced as an architect; he has designed all manner of manufactured objects, from samovars to wall clocks; he was responsible for the shape of one the most elegantly pure pre-stressed-concrete structures in the world, the Lavina-Tobel bridge in Switzerland (1966-67). In design, Bill has been an acknowledged rationalizing force...
Some large architectural firms have slashed their staffs by 70%. Says Atlanta Architect John Portman: "I think there are more architects out of work now than at any other time since the Depression." That goes for real estate brokers too. Complains James Williams, head of a Virginia construction company's sales staff: "The customers do not even come around to look any more...