Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove that Archimedes could indeed have caused the Roman vessels to burst into flames. At first Sakkas figured that Archimedes might have used a large convex mirror to focus the sun's rays on the invading galleys. In fact, as early as the 6th century the mathematician and architect Anthemius of Tralles suggested that Archimedes had used a large hexagonal mirror. But Sakkas soon decided that such a large mirror was beyond the technology of Archimedes' day. Besides, he says, "we must assume that the Romans were not blind enough to sit idly by as an enormous mirror...
What's more, the room comes in various curved and linear designs, and generally is equipped with a small sofa that glides on a track around the perimeter, moving from the audio-visual area, say, to a work station. "This is not just a toy," insists Architect William Pulgram, president of Associated Space Design, which will build the environments for Neiman-Marcus. "It is a recognition of a need in our society, a search for 'the real me.' This creates a favorable spatial experience for your task or function to become meaningful...
...three grand masters of early modern architecture, along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Mies' pure, honed elegance, as seen everywhere in his works, from his famous Barcelona chair (1929) to his glass-curtain walls, has transformed the appearance of every major city on earth. No modern architect has been more widely (or in most cases more clumsily) imitated...
Until 1958, when the success of his bronze Seagram building in Manhattan changed Mies from the architects' architect to something of a general cult figure, his output of finished structures was quite small. But his final years were full of projects, the last of which is the Brown Wing of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, which officially opens next January. Completed after his death, it was previewed last fortnight by a black-tie party of more than a thousand Texans. It is the fourth museum building by a leading international architect to rise in Texas...
There was much more, but in retrospect little of it makes sense. John Warnecke was to be the library's architect; the building was to be about two stories tall with only 50,000 square feet on each floor; and the library was to "blend in with the general Harvard architecture...