Word: architects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First came Columbia University architect Joseph Hudnut '09, who assumed the deanship of the newly-formed school. At the time, Hudnut was a hot ticket and his "lectures throughout the country were creating a sensation" according to GSD historian and visiting professor Anthony Alofsin '71. And then came Gropius...
...course stabilized, however, in 1953 with the appointment of Spanish architect Josep Lluis Sert as both dean of the GSD and of the architecture school. Not only did Sert design Peabody Terrace, Holyoke Center, and the Science Center, but the world-renown architect forged strong links between the GSD and the universal church of Modernism, the Congres Internationaux d' Architecture Moderne (CIAM...
...York Knicks he had been a "depreciable asset" to the team's owners, went shopping for a House partner interested in reform. In the spring of 1982 he and Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed a code with low rates and few deductions. New York Congressman Kemp, a prime architect of the 1981 tax cuts, later teamed up with Wisconsin Senator Robert Kasten to write a Republican bill that embodied many of the same principles. But none of these legislators had the clout to get action. That could be done only by the President, and Reagan was uninterested...
...that continue to divide East and West. It is the Berlin Wall, the place where rival political and economic systems come together but cannot meet, and this month is the 25th anniversary of its erection. "In the beginning it was just a wall," says Peter Werner, 49, a designer- architect who lives in West Berlin. "Then they made it more and more perfect with an inner wall and cleared earth between them like a desert war zone." This unique piece of architecture is known among East German officials as the "antifascist protection wall." West Berliners call it the "wall...
...idea of comfort does Rybczynski attempt to define it. The simplest definition would be just "feeling good," but that is too simple. The scientific definition would be a "condition in which discomfort has been avoided," but that is too negative. Since Rybczynski is not a scientist but an architect, and a subtly witty analyst of how people live, he prefers to end with a metaphor, "the Onion Theory of Comfort." In this, the slowly evolving attributes of comfort -- privacy, intimacy, domesticity, pleasure, ease, leisure, efficiency, convenience -- form a series of layers, partly transparent so that all can be partly seen...