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...Michael Graves, designers of a new city hall for Portland, Ore., said an architect's job is to build, adding, "architecture isn't about politics any more than politices is about architecture. Architecture is invention...
...last two or three years we've really built up," Barnaby, the architect of Harvard's women's squash renaissance, said. "I'm really pleased with the j.v. When you can leave out your first four and win, you're not doing badly...
DIED. Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 68, founder and board chairman of Litton Industries, who was architect of the modern management concept of conglomerates; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1953 he bought Litton, a tiny electronics company, and made it a huge conglomerate, acquiring some 40 firms that produced 200 products. As an Army Air Forces colonel in World War II, he won fame as the inventor of a "statistical control" system to keep track of the military's global resources. In 1946, he and nine Army colleagues moved to the financially ailing Ford Motor Co., where they were nicknamed...
...These are gorgeous and wonderful buildings and all we want to do is to return them to their former dignity." Maynam said. "I think the architect was very sensitive to this original beauty," she added...
...Navy insists that the Normandie's sinking was accidental. Like many real-life experts, however, the novel's hero, Steven Gates, a naval architect who was aboard the ship when it burned, is convinced that Nazi saboteurs were responsible. In hope of proving his theory, Gates quits his top-level designing job and joins a salvage crew on the ship...