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"My uncle was taken by the Iraqis on Thursday," Talal Attar, 29, an architectural engineer, said last week. "A lot of my friends and neighbors and cousins have disappeared." Enad al-Ban, a 24-year-old member of the resistance, said he was rounded up by the Iraqi security forces...
We all know it, and many of us say it, but few of us have had the courage to combat the massive disinformation campaign that began to confront us when we were innocent little froshlings entering the Yard for the first time. Poster gum, we were told, magically allows us...
The later etching, Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gates of the Temple represents a calmer, more introspective Rembrandt. This is visible in the composed expressions of the apostles and in the controlled architectural setting of the temple. The emotion previously rendered by exaggerated lighting and gestures is...
Architectural education is also a factor. "Gaudi invented a new system of architecture," says Catalan professor Joan Bassegoda. "Instead of the geometry of rectangles and circles, he took his structures from nature, studying what forms allow trees and humans to grow and stay upright." Hyperbolas, parabolas, helices and helicoids, the...
Growing up in Spring Green, Wis., Haas used to help his great uncle, who was the stonemason at Frank Lloyd Wright's home. He studied painting at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Minnesota, but architectural references kept creeping...