Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local architects' organization yesterday kicked off a competition for graduate architecture students to design a public housing complex that may never be built...
...competition, sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects, asks students to design a 12-family apartment complex with several common areas and a playground which would fit a real site in Roxbury. The contest is part of "The Search for Shelter," a nationwide project sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. Twenty to 30 similar competitions are being held simultaneously in cities nationwide...
Contestants must design an apartment complex for single-parent families, according to Brigid C. Williams '75, a member of the BSA committee running the competition...
...photographs on these and the following pages are the fruit of an extraordinary feat of organization. In the past eight years, Rick Smolan and David Cohen have co-directed projects that captured a single day in the lives of Australia, Canada, Japan and America. Now, after three years of complex negotiations with a government long used to rendering its territory invisible, they dispatched 100 top photographers from West and East to record a single 24-hour period. The result is A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, culled from 127,000 images snapped on Friday...
...countries with extremely low wage rates and local costs take over the production of simple commodities, U.S. manufacturers are increasingly turning to market niches in which products are more complex and specialized. This is especially true in the semiconductor industry, where Japanese companies have taken over the market for mass-produced memory chips. Thus Silicon Valley chipmakers like Cypress Semiconductor (1986 sales: $51 million) thrive on diversity. Cypress makes 80 different types of chips in a factory that can accommodate several tooling changes every day. Says T.J. Rodgers, the company president: "You can be very competitive with the Japanese...