Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Less," said the late architect, Mies van der Rohe, "is more." Folk Singer Joan Baez and Husband David Harris-so happily married when he was in jail on a three-year sentence for refusing induction into the Army-have found since his release ten months ago that more marriage is less happiness. "Living together is getting in the way of our relationship," David has told his friends to explain the split. "I agreed with that," says Joan. "We're continuing to work together, and our son Gabriel is thriving, and that's all that matters anyway...
...Habitat uninhabited so long? Basically, because of initial mismanagement. Its multilevel apartments were filled with exhibitors and functionaries until Expo ended. Then for several months it stood tenantless, save for the architect and another family or two, as federal, provincial and local governments quarreled over who was to administer it. In February 1968, the federal government's Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) took it over, and a series of bungles began. Rents were pegged at exorbitant levels. Rumors spread about rat infestation and inadequate heat. Understandably, prospective tenants stayed away. Then CMHC cut rents-twice. People moved...
...that of being atop a giant, jagged iceberg floating downriver past Montreal. Inside the iceberg, though, all is snug and warm; a baroque symphony dances across the huge living room while the champagne bubbles and the soft lights glow. This is Habitat, the magnificent living complex designed by Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie and built on the tiny Cité du Havre peninsula for Canada's Expo '67. For a surprisingly long time, it was well in the running for the White-Elephant-of-the-Decade Award, but today it is the most desirable address in Montreal...
Upper Crust. Architect Safdie originally designed Habitat as a pilot low-cost housing project, but its present tenants are definitely upper crust: professors, architects, lawyers, musicians and business executives. CMHC advertises it as "the most sophisticated place to live in Canada," which is a jarring contrast with Architect Safdie's original intentions. Safdie himself, feeling that rents were unrealistically high, moved out of Habitat in protest three years...
Bodard is stunned by the cold beauty of Brasilia, the new futuristic capital designed by the socialist architect Oscar Niemeyer. The city, Bodard says, has been given "the face of socialism in its purest state, the face of political commissaries in a totally futuristic Kremlin. But the truth is that there is no socialism in Brazil and no socialism in Brasilia. It is only a dream...