Word: architecturee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The GSD named Michael Van Valkenburgh, who has been an associate professor at the design school since 1982, to be the school's newest professor of landscape architecture.
Van Valkenburg, who specializes in ice architecture, worked with several students to design and build the seven-foot-high walls of ice that adorned the Cabot Quad last month. He constructed the walls by spraying water on mesh screens, letting the wind and temperature form the exact design.
"On your left" he announced, "is the Labatt's plant. Makes the best beer in Canada. On your right, notice the Marriott hotel. A fine example of modern architecture."
He went to college in Montpellier (less than ten miles from his beloved sea) and stayed for three years, doing extensive hitchhiking and sketching -- women, costumes, architecture. Paris, he was certain, would be his ultimate destination, but "I knew it was a tough city, and I wasn't ready."
Los Angeles has attracted as many first-rate mystery novelists as any other metropolis, and none have been better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity than Joseph Hansen. The ninth and most affecting of his series featuring Dave Brandstetter, a homosexual insurance- claims investigator...