Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prefer to call their unlikely likenesses "interpretations" rather than portraits. Abstractionist Hugo Weber became friends with Mies van der Rohe while they both were teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Not until 15 years later did Mies permit a portrait, and then Weber had to sketch while the architect worked at his desk. The blue of Mies's habitual business suit pervades a shoulder-swaying pose as slashing as icy spindrift. Weber still does not know if his subject was pleased, but Mies did buy one of his oils and three drawings...
...past 19 months has captured the imagination of his people as no one before. He is an aristocrat, a member of one of Peru's older and wealthier families. Were it not for the force of circumstance, he would probably still be just a successful Lima architect. His political enemies call him an adventurer, a buccaneer, a demagogue. In his messianic public oratory, he has at times approached the emotional level of a Fidel Castro. But the revolution that Belaunde carries forward is peaceful, democratic, and made in Latin America. As far as the U.S. is concerned...
Army General Manuel Odria, then in power, scoffed at the upstart architect and declared Belaúnde's candidacy illegal for lack of enough petition signatures. Belaúnde called a protest demonstration in downtown Lima, raised high a Peruvian flag, and shouting "Adelante!", led a mob of 1,000 toward the President's palace. Waiting police hurled tear gas. His eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost...
...Boston, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has rummaged through the crumbling brick of a house by Early American Architect Charles Bulfinch to retrieve choice examples of historic woodwork. A well-known Boston psychiatrist cases demolition sites on Sundays, is now the proud possessor of seven copper finials designed by architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Anonymous...
Robb, a practicing architect, is a former president of the Boston Society of Architects. He has been active in Harvard alumni affairs, at one time serving as New England regional vice-president of the Associated Harvard Clubs...