Word: architects
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...Brien is, for all his skill, essentially a back-room boy. The Great Society's architect and principal prophet has been, and will continue to be, Lyndon Johnson, and his extraordinary legislative record is 90% his own. The importance of O'Brien's 10% was demonstrated nonetheless by the fact that the entire Congress, Republicans as well as Democrats, had planned an unprecedented party to bid him farewell when-as he fully expected-he quit Washington this fall...
...first meeting with the angular man in black, who died last week of a heart attack at 77. Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret to a family of Swiss watchmakers, Le Corbusier adopted one of his mother's family names as an artistic signature and set out to become an architect and painter. He embraced the cult of purism, an art style so puritani cal that it purged even the strict geometries of cubism of any traces of anecdote or decoration. And he became a student of Auguste Perret, the pioneer of building with reinforced concrete. Two years after meeting...
Although Corbu became the most influential, and possibly the most irritable architect of the 20th century (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), he could only bear the friendship of down-to-earth people, such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated...
Died. Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), 77, brilliant, Swiss-born, French architect of the reinforced concrete age; of a heart attack while swimming off Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France...
Goldin said that the North Harvard resistance had hired its own architect to go through the area and make a survey of the residences in question. "The only real criticism will come from an independent source," he explained...