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...architecture??is concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and especially after the debut of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the sturdy glass-and-steel rectangle, for decades the default mode for serious buildings, has begun to give way to the parabola, the whiplash curve and geometries so irregular, there's no point in looking them up in geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings...
...failed to photograph the most beautiful new church in the country [see cut] and, at the same time, to mention that it was designed on the drawing board by our pastor, the Reverend M.A. Jollay. Not only did he do the actual work?all without a formal degree in architecture???but he received lavish praise from the contractors who built this beautiful $250,000 structure. In addition, he directed a campaign that saw the entire amount raised through the sale of bonds which made it unnecessary for us to visit any bank vice presidents to raise the money. Almost...
...planet teems with more and more humanity, his work, with its multiple disciplines?including history, sociology, engineering, botany, geology, hydrography and, above all, architecture???is becoming more and more a pressing necessity...
...mandolins of Sorrento, the bells of Capri?even the stars that tremoloed with tender, operatic passion in the black night-sky ?all belonged to her. She had bought them, it seemed, when she bought the palace of the Cybo Malaspina which perched-a splendid example of baroque architecture???on a hill above the little town of Vezza. Ah, Italy! The boot fitted...
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