Word: cerda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boom occurred at the height of Barcelona's industrial prosperity and misery, between 1860 and 1910. Its main frame, the huge grid of chocolate- square blocks that stretches from the Barri Gotic up the slope toward the Collserola hills, was designed in 1859 by a socialist engineer named Ildefons Cerda. It is known as the Eixample, or Enlargement, and is the ancestor of all the Utopian schemes of 20th century architecture. The cultural contents of this grid, as it developed, proved no less remarkable. The trade-obsessed city of powerful clerics and stuffy businessmen was the closest place to northern...
Gradually it filled Cerda's grid, which is now the world's greatest museum of 1900s architecture. The big Catalan mercantile families who made their piles after 1850 and ran the city tended to preen themselves on being modern versions of Renaissance princes -- all the more so since most of their grandfathers had been artisans or colonial hustlers. There was a lot of pent- up vigor and ambition itching to glorify itself...
...changes were originally suggested by the council's residential committee. Telephone Office Manager Jack Wise outlined the new policies in a letter to committee member Maria G. Cerda '93 earlier this month...
...residential committee also suggested that the telephone office update the student directory at the beginning of second semester, Cerda said...
...committee also requested more Centrex phones in Harvard Yard, Cerda said...