Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARCEL MARCEAU is a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of space, an eloquent poet of silence. He is the panto mimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human, with the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...
...ALBANY is a $100 million showplace campus going up on the 350-acre site of a former country club. Architect Edward Durell Stone has designed four 23-story dormitory towers, each overlooking its own one-story "academic podium" containing classrooms, labs, student lounge and auditorium. The quad system is supposed to let Albany handle its planned 7,500 students, yet retain a collegiate atmosphere. The school-which evolved from a 121-year-old teachers college-is strongest in its community-service-oriented graduate schools of public affairs, social welfare and criminal justice...
...goal of the international competition was a design for a cultural center for the rugged city of Sydney, Australia. Winning architect was Denmark's Joern Utzon, now 47, who until then had built only a few housing projects. The drawings seemed a fantasy. In construction, they have proved even more exciting-and difficult to realize...
...Angeles Landscape Architect Henry Soto, who had to drive by a 40-ft.-deep clay pit every day on his way to work, was suddenly struck by an idea. Rounding up a few partners, he bought the pit and converted it into a private dump, charging $8 per load. To appease neighbors' noses, he covered each day's refuse with a layer of earth. To screen the mess from passersby, he built a bamboo fence, planted the border with floodlit flower beds and palm trees. When finished, the area looked so little like a dump that...
...architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, is also concerned about parking space. Pel will make recommendations to ease traffic and parking problems caused by the Library, which will be located on the Bennett St, transit yards. He will probably also include parking space on the Bennett St. site itself...