Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warren Brown, a student who helped design the questionnaire, said the survey results could affect the final design of the library. "Recent changes of design by the architect indicate that nothing in the plans has been finalized," he said...
...most of the present-day prophets disappoint Thompson. Architect Paolo Soleri, with his beehive city projects aimed at accommodating architecture with ecology, and Educator Ivan Illich, with his hope of "deschooling" society, turn out to be looking backward. Reacting to a world too full of growth, they strive to return to simpler, medieval values. (Nevertheless, both Illich and Soleri represent something Thompson admires: the achievement of authority unaccompanied by institutional power.) The Club of Rome, on the other hand, looks forward to a world of no growth. But Thompson dismisses its recommendations too because he distrusts rule by any "technocratic...
...chosen the Hunneman Corporation to assume management of the housing development once it is occupied. John Sharratt Associates, Inc. will be the architect for the development, with Samuel Glaser and Partners as associate architect...
...John F. Kennedy Memorial Library will lose its monumental 85-foot-high glass pyramid in scaled-down construction plans now being prepared by architect...
...Died. Louis I. Kahn, 73 (TIME, Jan.15,1973), a seminal architect for the past two decades; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Kahn was a relatively obscure teacher until the early 1950s, when his first major design, the Yale Art Gallery, was constructed. After that, his influence-as seen in the designs of such disciples as Charles Moore and Pop Architect Robert Venturi-became enormous. Kahn was primarily concerned with principles of order and light. His work featured the use of stark, geometric shapes and an emphasis on natural light and the moods created by it. He also incorporated such...