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...practicing architect as well as a teacher. Kallmann "regards it as very essential that one should renew oneself by constant practice," adding that "practice affects the quality of one's teaching...
Freemasonry, an Anglo-Saxon creation first transplanted to Florence in 1733, was soon under attack by the Catholic Church. The Masonic principles of nonsectarianism and ab stract belief in a "Great Architect of the Universe" were viewed as an intolerable threat by Pope Clement XII, who issued the first papal edict that ordered excommunication of any Catholics who became Masons. Masons were often regarded as subversive political freethinkers by the Italian principalities. By the mid-19th century, in fact, many of the most prominent nationalist leaders of the Italian risorgimento were Masons. Among them: Giuseppe Mazzini and the notoriously antipapal...
...serving them, bringing them tea in the morning and shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines, and her husband is powerless, "an architect lying on a bed in a mud hut, a man without a vehicle...
...Fogg Museum also received some help from abroad this year in the form of a design for a new $5.9-million extension to be built on the site of Allston Burr Hall. British architect James Stirling unveiled plans for the adjunct in April, likening his creation to a car battery. "It's incredibly dense," he explained...
...Architect Stephen Tucker of Cambridge who received more than $10,000 from HRE for his work on 18-20 Ware Street and other buildings, spent some of his time trying to find a way around the law. And though HRE eventually installed the required modifications to the Ware Street apartments, Tucker's memo to HRE president Sally Zeckhauser and vice-president Robert Silverman provides a revealing look at one of the services tenants--as well as students and alumni--pay for as part of HRE's daily business operations...