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...Alex Chang: Chinese-American architect, filmmaker, graphic designer, teacher, political theorist, ice skater...
...year, when he returned from his leave of absence, Chang stayed in government but also wanted to pursue something closer to his true interests. He found it in VES. "When I was young and was asked what are you going to be when you grow up, I always said architect. My forte was the visual arts-- drawing, painting--and math and science, which meant architecture. I felt architecture and urban planning to be more of my calling. I felt more of natural knack for it. It was more in line with what wanted to do [in real life...
...didn't feel he fit in his family or his schools. He tried the University of Tennessee twice and the U.S. Air Force once. He married a young woman from college named Lee Holleman, the first of his two wives, and they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
...everyone, including the President and his advisers, was resigned to the fact that the historic 19th century town houses around Lafayette Square in Washington would be torn down to make room for a large federal office building. "She refused to give up," said John Carl Warnecke, an architect who helped develop a plan to preserve the 19th century character of the square. "She said this is 'a last-ditch effort.' A lot of other people have taken credit for Lafayette Square, but she was the true savior." After leaving the White House, she would help save New York City...
However, says Charles Daly, director of the Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston, "she was not at all above giving very direct criticism when warranted." He recalls the day she visited the library building designed by her friend the architect I.M. Pei as it was under construction. She saw an asphalt driveway where lawn and trees should have been. "She called one of I.M. Pei's guys out and pointed to the asphalt," says Daly. "She nearly ate the guy for lunch. She could be very tough...