Word: architects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I took Literature and Arts B-33: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture" last semester, we studied the United Nations headquarters in New York City as an example of the architect Le Corbusier's work. Driving past the U.N. this summer, I noted the characteristic window-walls and boxy shape. I was proud to have learned something useful in a Core class; I now had an erudite factoid for future cocktail-party...
...city council's next meeting on Monday, members of the Campaign to Save 2,000 Homes said they plan to "expose to the public" the financial status of a number of large property owners, according to Washington Taylor, a local architect and private homeowner in Cambridge involved with the campaign...
...NATIONALE NEDERLANDEN BUILDING: A structure as playful as this deserves a nickname. And Frank Gehry and Croatian-born architect Vladimir Milunic's new building on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague has one. It's called Fred and Ginger, after its twin towers: one flirty and curvilinear, the other solid and upright. The staggered windows and rippled riverfront facade reflect the adjacent row houses even as the building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings...
...Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau collaborated to create this definitive anti-coffee-table book, an eccentric and exhaustive assemblage of Koolhaas' building designs, jottings and musings. It even has pages of charts showing how his practice has fared over the years. It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked through...
...only to falter when Democrats showed even less enthusiasm for him than Republicans did. Mitchell may also owe his eclipse to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who went to his friend Bill just when the deal seemed done to make a strong pitch for Richard Holbrooke, the ambitious architect of the Dayton accords. Clinton didn't care that Holbrooke would break a lot of careers and egos over at Foggy Bottom, but he knew that Lake and Holbrooke despised each other and would be constantly sniping. Meanwhile, women's groups, incensed at a remark leaked by a White House...