Word: architects
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...painter, though you shrug that off. That's O.K. But if you should become an artist, ignore the critics. Some precious few critics have an artist in them, but most are a desperate, shriveled lot who have found a way to touch art without making it. The half-nuts architect Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is confronted by the critic who tried to destroy him. "Why don't you tell me what you think of me," says the critic. To which Roark responds, "I don't think...
...first draft of plans was rejected by the Cambridge Historical Commission (CHC), so the building's owner, Cambridge Savings Bank, has commissioned a second architect to make stronger efforts to preserve the building's historic feel. The CHC will make a final decision on renovation plans tomorrow, and sources involved in Harvard Square commerce say there's a very good chance Reed Block could be made a historic landmark, helping those fighting to preserve The Tasty...
...York-based architect, says that such a background has had concrete ramifications throughout Ma's career...
...chair of the state legislature's Joint Committee on Education Reform, Birmingham was the chief architect of the Massachusetts Education Reform...
...brought it in was Thomas Jefferson, in his role as architect. Educated in Williamsburg, Virginia, he despised its provincial-English buildings as "rude, mis-shapen piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because...