Word: designate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firm of Leonard, Veysseyre and Kruze-Erh brings to light the forgotten Chinese architects of the period, such as Benjamin Chih Chen, Shen Chao and Chuin Tung, all graduates of the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s. As founders of Allied Architects, the city's most famous Chinese-owned design firm, the trio was responsible for the imposing Chekiang First Commercial Bank, completed in 1948. Erh also highlights the delightful Chinese Aviation Association building, which the U.S.-trained Chinese architect Dong Dayu designed in the shape of a stylized aircraft of the mid-1930s. Today the structure is a military...
...release of Erh's book was timed to coincide with one of the world's biggest architectural-appreciation gatherings-the annual Art Deco Weekend organized by the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL). This year's event, held over three days in January, was entitled "East Meets West: Art Deco from Shanghai to Miami," and featured an exhibition of Erh's images of both cities. "Shanghai and Miami Beach share a great deal in common," explains the MDPL's spokesman Scott Timm. "They are both economic and business centers for their regions, represent a blending of cultures and both contain...
Asking students to work across disciplines might be fairly straightforward; our malleable intellects lend themselves to mixing academic media, sometimes even by design. But demanding the same flexibility from a graduate student TF writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum...
...Kajeet isn't first to market. Firefly Mobile over the past two years has signed up about 200,000 customers under age 12, touting its parental controls and simple design: the five-button handset lacks even a number pad. Though garnering low marks for style, the clunky Firefly has surely helped some divorced or single working parents who spend a disproportionate amount of time apart from their children. Disney similarly rejected coolness as a priority when it launched its mobile service last spring. "They don't even know who their customer is - the parent or the child," said Entner, noting...
...wrote. “It probably also didn’t hurt that the course received high CUE ratings the last time it was offered.” Beckert’s class holds a slim lead over Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City,” which enrolls 353 undergraduates. “I am proud of my class’ size,” said Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, who heads the course. “I’d like to think...