Word: architects
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...members of the administration of his predecessor, José Lopez Portillo, whose government was widely regarded as corrupt. Last week, in a move that created a nationwide sensation, the government accused Jorge Díaz Serrano, 63, former head of the state oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), and the "architect" of Mexico's oil boom, of corruption. The charge: defrauding Pemex of $34 million in connection with the purchase of two Belgian natural gas tankers...
...American original, a cranky genius and an ingenious crank. He liked to call himself "an engineer, inventor, mathematician, architect, cartographer, philosopher, poet, cosmologist, comprehensive designer and choreographer." He was also a mystical optimist who believed in the survival of mankind against whatever odds...
Ordinarily the 239-year-old Sotheby's would not be eager to be taken over by an American of any stripe, and particularly not by a real estate magnate like Taubman. Though trained as an architect at the University of Michigan and at the Lawrence Institute of Technology near Detroit, he emphasizes both commerce and art. Says he: "A shopping center is like a department store. First you plan where the merchandise is going to go, then you build architecture around it." That sort of attitude hardly seems suited to Sotheby's, where a cultivated image of exclusivity...
Some of the 1,200 architects, film makers and graphic and industrial designers who assembled at Aspen are leaders in an emerging, spontaneous coalition of preservationists, ecologists and artisans who are making our cities more livable and human. Peter Blake, for example, wrote a much noted polemic against the modernist vision. Benjamin Thompson is the architect of Faneuil Hall and other festival markets. Israeli-born Canadian Architect Moshe Safdie is a pioneer in the search for a new architecture of humanism. "Out here in this wonderful countryside," Safdie said last week, "I don't feel that I want...
Nonetheless, Shultz was confronted with an uncommon degree of rancor among State Department officials after word came that Enders, an architect of U.S. policy toward Central America, was about to be shuffled off as Ambassador to Madrid. Professional diplomats at State became increasingly outraged over a steady stream of anonymous denigrating comments about Enders that emerged from the White House. Among the accusations: that, contrary to White House policy, Enders favored conciliatory negotiations with the guerrillas in El Salvador; that he insisted excessively on the importance of emphasizing economic as well as military aid to El Salvador in President Reagan...