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...after World War II were wheeled out to meet groggy football supporters at the airport. Train conductors helped Mexicans stow their oversized sombreros, and stadium attendants showed visitors how to use their cell phones to access the Internet. "Not once did I feel lost," says Juan Pablo Mollina, an architect from Mexico City. "I was surprised?there were so many guides who spoke Spanish?and always people ready to help, and to talk football...
...because it was part of me. But I also thought it would help them understand how you go from nothing to something. Now they're both in their 20s. Ana is creating her own art history-literature major at Harvard. Joseph is at Harvard too, studying to become an architect. I guess maybe they got it. --As told to Francine Russo
...career, nothing can or will ever equal being chosen as the architect for the Getty Center. Not only was it the most important event of my career, but as things worked out, the project became inextricably linked with my children's growing...
When the Getty's board invited leading architects to compete in 1982, the members presented the Getty Center as the architect's dream of the decade--at least. And it was. The site was extraordinary--more than 100 acres in the middle of Los Angeles, high above everything, untouched, with views in all directions. And the full vision of what the center would be--museum, research institute, executive offices--was still to be formed...
With all the blame being thrown around, distracting the President from his job and dividing us all, maybe we should blame the car-rental companies whose autos let the terrorists get to the airports; or the architect of the World Trade Center for not foreseeing that a fully fueled airplane might crash into the buildings, melt the girders and cause a collapse; or the landlords who rented to terrorists. How silly is that? Forget "shoulda, woulda, coulda," and focus on "what are we gonna do from now on?" SANDRA HOCHSTEDLER South Bend...