Word: architecturale
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After more than a dozen books and scores of travel articles, Morris remains unjaded by the noise and disruption of urban life. She is certainly a believer in possibilities (see Conundrum, her 1974 account of the medical and psychological sex-change procedures that turned James Morris into Jan Morris). It...
Or Suzanne Firtko, an architectural historian in New York City who invented the Street Sheet, instructions that direct homeless people to the nearest soup kitchens and clothes banks. She persuaded Du Pont to donate waterproof, tear- resistant paper, and designed the sheets with easy-to-understand graphics so the disoriented...
- This is seen in the six predella panels the Met has reunited from his early masterpiece: an altarpiece for the Wool Guild of Siena. The clarity and measure of the green architectural frame, with its slender columns and bladelike ribs, in which the theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas kneels in prayer...
In interviews over the past several years, O'Neill has stressed repeatedly that Harvard has become more sensitive towards city neighborhoods. She says Harvard neither would nor could build such architectural testaments to the University's dominance as Holyoke Center, Peabody Terrace and the new portion of Quincy House.
The committee of 13--including one Harvard representative and seven representatives of neighborhood associations, is one of several city panels whose approval is necessary for any major architectural change in the area.