Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this respect, as in many others, medicine stands alone among the professions. Poor performance by a tax accountant, an architect, or a tort lawyer can usually be expressed in terms of dollars, which any layman can understand. Not so with medicine. The cliché has it that medicine is as much art as science. Granted, the art part is in tangible and immeasurable. But much of the science part of medicine remains largely hit or miss. One doctor will pre scribe twice as much of a potent antibiotic as another, or prescribe a needlessly dangerous drug. One surgeon will hurry...
Robert Cicchetti, an architect with Kanavos, agreed. "The new situation is looking very favorable," he said yesterday...
CATHEDRAL: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay. 80 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral, from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay, a young architect, uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches, accompanied by a brief, clear narrative. He shows how to design and build a flying buttress, cast a bell in bronze, use the mortise-and-tenon method on the roof beams. By changing his viewpoint, he also powerfully conveys the immense rook-filled...
...full story starts in 1965 when the Massachusetts legislature gave the federal government land for building a Kennedy Library complex. Architect I.M. Pei developed a plan dividing the 12.2 acre Charles River site--now occupied by the Bennett-Eliot MBTA Yards--into four sections--5.3 acres for the Kennedy museum, archives, plaza and Institute of Politics; 3 acres for related facilities; 1.7 acres for street improvements; and 2.2 acres for Harvard construction...
Diana K. McGuire, landscape architect for the University, said yesterday that other projects the committee is working on include the planting of more trees and grass along the campus riverfront and designing, with the House committees, the layout and planting of house gardens...