Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will design the atomic world-the technologist or the architect? As the world's top atomic scientists headed home from Geneva, leaving heady hints of a new atomic age behind them, Swiss Architect Rudolf Steiger was ready with an answer...
...When mankind got electricity and steam," says Steiger, "factories sprang up, and residential sections were thrown around them without planning. That's what we must avoid in the atomic age. The architect should be Number...
Steiger, 54, a blunt bundle of energy, is Switzerland's No. 1 architect. Last week he and his partner-son, Peter Steiger, were busy checking blueprints for a mammoth Steiger-designed atomic laboratory near Geneva. Commissioned by the twelve-nation European Council for Nuclear Research, the laboratory will cover 90 acres, will incorporate such new-age elements as a synchrocyclotron and a 25 billion electron-volt proton-synchrotron (TIME...
...Touch of Blackbeard. Conspicuously present at Cowes last week was the renaissance's principal architect: salty, roistering Uffa Fox, 57, one of the world's top yacht designers, boom companion and helmsman to the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Prince Philip fared no better than second, successively sailing in Uffa's 20-ton sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn...
...damage starts when Neddy tender considerate husband and rising young English architect, signs up for a 13-month job in Australia and packs Celia and the kids off to Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They...