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Michelangelo Merisi is thought to have been born in Milan in 1571. Caravaggio is the town where he was raised by his mother after his father, a builder and architect, died of plague...
...otherwise known as The Nutcracker. After years of being closed for a contentious restoration, the Ara Pacis, the Emperor Augustus' monument to peace, dedicated in 9 B.C., is finally open (Piazza Augusto Imperatore). It is to be the centerpiece of a new museum that is being designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier. You'll have to come back in April for that...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Ayn Rand. Her first—and best—novel, “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, tells the story of an independent-minded architect, Howard Roark, who rebels against the collectivist ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally...
...Sydney's loss has been Brisbane's and Auckland's gain. Voted the most popular design of those shortlisted for the MCA was an elegantly fanned Moving Image Museum at the Harbour Bridge end of the site. Its architect, Sydney's Richard Francis-Jones, now finds himself at the helm of the Auckland redevelopment. With the original 1887 French chateau?style building overrun by storage and an unwieldy airconditioning system, Francis-Jones was faced with a similarly tricky heritage site. His solution has been to restore the existing spaces and double their area with what he calls a "hovering canopy...
They call him the man who killed Jim Crow, the beacon of the NAACP’s revolutionary crusade against segregation, and the architect of the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling. And now, 55 years after his death, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders hope they can finish what Charles Hamilton Houston set out to complete...