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...first sign of it, not much better than the original malaise, was "historicism,"-the rich, beautiful prose of corporate style, achieved with acres of white marble that somehow always ended up looking like plastic laminate. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art by William Pereira is an early Western example of the genre; its equivalent on the East Coast was Lincoln Center in Manhattan, a large, poor parody of Michelangelo's Campidoglio in Rome, designed by Wallace Harrison, Max Abramovitz and by Philip Johnson, whose building was the New York State Theater. All the historical allusions in this corporate style...
Even some Portuguese merchants and farmers whose property was expropriated by the Neto government are seeking to return. At a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Lisbon, set up to house would-be returnees, Dulce Pereira da Silva, 54, last week was waiting for a flight to take her back to the village of Musulo in northeast Angola, where she once owned a general store. Says she: "My son, who is a mechanic, is already working and I've had letters and phone calls from the family and they say everything is all right there." Angelino...
Architect William Pereira reckons incorrectly that the Pacific Mutual building in San Francisco will be the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World War II [March 6]. Many have been built with openable windows. The U.N. Secretariat building is one; completion date...
...Pereira, who designed such pioneering structures as C.B.S. Television City in Los Angeles and the library at the University of California at San Diego, got the idea from a 24-story building owned by the Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. Although it was built in the 1920s, says Pereira, "it is always 100% occupied, and one of the principal reasons is that it has openable windows." He designed the Pacific Mutual building not only as a fond bow to the city's tradition, but also to cut energy use by 15% to 20%. And he estimates that...
...Pereira figures that similar buildings would be practical almost anywhere in the U.S., except in very humid regions. In fact, he often opens the windows in the five-story Los Angeles building where he works. Says Pereira: "I'm a fresh-air fiend...