Word: architects
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Frank Lloyd Wright could be called the first New World architect. Unlike his distinguished American predecessors, he did not look toward classical or European models for inspiration. He advocated and used indigenous materi als designed to harmonize with natural settings...
...Allan Bond, 45, a chunky, feisty Perth entrepreneur and onetime sign painter, who has spent $16 million in ten years pursuing what many of his countrymen dismissed as a manic obsession. This is his fourth bid, Australia II his third boat. In Ben Lexcen, 47, Bond found a naval architect who could radically change the design of a 12-meter boat, a field that has seen little technological innovation in years. In secret tank tests in The Netherlands, Lexcen developed a keel like nothing ever used before: with two delta-type wings weighing more than a ton each, it gives...
Sing, Goddess, of Architect Manolis Korres, 35, and the Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments, scientists from many nations gathered in Athens, casting off fear as before a great battle, to plan restoration of the most beautiful wonder of the ancient world: the marble Parthenon. That hilltop temple of Zeus' daughter, Athena the Virgin (Athena Parthenos), has for 2,400 years brought glory to Phidias, sculptor of its fluted columns, and to farseeing Pericles, and to all the Hellenes...
...save the temple, the Greek government called upon Architect Korres, a native of Athens and a specialist in ancient monuments, who since 1977 has participated in the restoration of the nearby Erechtheum. That project is nearly completed; the scaffolding of the Erechtheum is scheduled for removal in 1984. At this temple engineers also encountered irons rusting within marble. After tearing down the Erechtheum's walls, they replaced the rods with rustproof titanium, a strong, lightweight metal commonly used in airplane engines and earth-orbiting craft...
...restoration, Architect Korres insisted, should not try to return the temple to mint condition. As he put it, "Acts of vandalism and the decline of the original architectural system all form part of the history of the building. We are obliged to accept that the perfect lines and surfaces have been lost forever and that the monument has a new character-that of a ruin...