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Such exuberance is Arquitectonica's way of trying to make up for modern architecture's shortcomings in social purpose and aesthetic satisfaction. These faults have sent other architects to the attic for historic forms and ornaments. Arquitectonica is building on the spirit of daring and experiment that characterized the avant-garde earlier in this century. "We are not trying to create a new style," says Laurinda Spear, 33, one of the founding partners. "We are just trying to make modern architecture more lively and up to date...
...Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman...
...laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will choose from this great inheritance, to decide what I will place in my living room and what I will relegate to the attic." Since the religious strains stem from such passionately held beliefs, they will never completely vanish. In deed, Israel has never had a written constitution precisely because its people could not agree on the proper role of religion in the state. Some see the conflict, in fact, as a healthy process that renews Judaism...
...term Usonian (derived from the initials U.S.). Their architecture was intended to embody the spirit of democracy as Wright saw it, a spirit of close-to-nature individualism and hearth-centered family life. The exterior of the two-bedroom house shows mostly an unassuming brick wall. It has no attic, porch or basement, and its core consists of a single spacious, harmonious unit of living room, dining room and kitchen, focused on the fireplace...
...Semper Opera in Dresden, which was destroyed in an Anglo-American fire bombing raid in 1945. The famous equestrian statue of Frederick the Great that graced the Unter den Linden until World War II has returned to its pedestal like an old piece of furniture reclaimed from the attic and restored to its proper place. The sudden fascination with Frederick is the subject of a comedy titled The Prussians Are Coming, which is playing, appropriately enough, in Potsdam, where the King once held court...