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...1960s a thoroughgoing critique of Modernist architecture, often joined to a deep suspicion of capitalist culture generally, was under way among younger architects. They wanted to imagine a cityscape that was not merely sane and rational but that acknowledged and accommodated human desires, even if imagine was all they could do. So "Archilab" opens with a section called "The Pulsating City," full of models and drawings based on organic forms or made from flexible materials, like David Greene's witty Living Pod. The point of such work was to unlock the imprisoning grids of Modernism, to make the soap bubble...
...mainland has undergone unprecedented economic growth that has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, amid China's still-incomplete transition from command to market economy, many among the class of workers the country's nominally Marxist-Leninist leaders are supposed to protect?the Lumpenproletariat?are experiencing the very capitalist dystopia Marx envisioned. "There's more economic development than ever before, but workers' rights are overlooked," says Li Qiang, director of the New York City-based rights-monitoring group China Labor Watch. "You can take the name Communist Party and cut it up. This is maximum capitalism...
...Rogers turned investing into an international thrill ride in his books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist. His latest effort, Hot Commodities, explains how to invest in everything from tin to coffee--with detours into Brazilian sugar farms and Dutch smuggling rings. TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM asked him for some New Year's wisdom...
During that period, the venture capitalist said he hopes to attract an older demographic to the museum and will oversee a renovation and upcoming fundraising campaign...
...commonly called, has stuck close to the Boston area for much of his life. He grew up in Framingham, Mass. He moved from Framingham to Cambridge for college. After Harvard, Burnes got his MBA from Boston University. In 1970, he co-founded Charles River Ventures, a successful venture capitalist firm. He is married to Nonnie S. Burnes, a judge in the Massachusetts Superior Court, and has three children...