Word: architects
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Josep Lluis Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and an internationally prominent architect, who designed several of Harvard's newest buildings, died of cancer Monday at age 80 in Spain...
Sert sought to bring "a new creativity" to the Harvard campus. Huson Jackson, a business partner of Sert, said yesterday. "He was not content to continue building in the old Georgian and Victorian style," Jackson said. As part of this effort. Sert brought the prominent French modernist architect Charles Le Corbusier to Harvard in 1963 to design the Carpenter Center, the tamed designer's only American work...
Sert retired from his position at the graduate school of GSD in 1969 but continued his career as an architect. In 1981 he received the gold medal of the American institute of Architects, the most prestigious American award in architecture, for his lifetime work...
Oommen said he and architect William Pressley will probably select a construction company from among five bidders by Monday. The Corporation will meet next week to evaluate the project, he said, adding he expects approval...
...second round. To understand the reason for the ban, a familiarity with bedrock religion would be handy-that and oldtime values. And to understand its effect is to appreciate paradox. The contradiction, in the words of Circuit Court Judge J. Edward Tease, has been "institutionalized bootlegging." Too, as Architect Gerald Wade was instructing an inquisitor the other day, "Your question is phrased wrong. The question isn't how long the county has been dry, but, rather, whether it's ever been dry." One must call upon a distant memory to catch the root of this observance, and that...