Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written to a flat-topped building in the sunset." Graduating with top honors from Harvard after a tour in the U.S. Navy (officer-in-charge, ship construction, Brooklyn Navy Yard), Rudolph was impatient for fame, admits he became a "structural exhibitionist." For instance, he put a fancy catenary roof on a 20-ft. Florida guesthouse: "It should have been used on a building with a 300-ft. span, but I just couldn't wait...
This building is meant to stand up and be counted." By paying strict attention to such functional problems as ventilation (the building "breathes" through the overlapping roof slabs), sun protection (provided by massive, hanging concrete sunbreakers), and mechanical equipment space (placed in concrete coffers atop the columns), he feels he has achieved a vigorous, new look that expresses both structure and function...
...great vines. ("Mechanical equipment eats up 35% to 40% of the budget, and this is an area architects have simply not exploited.'') On his own, Rudolph has just had his design accepted for Yale's new Art and Architecture building ("All hell breaks loose on the roof"), is hard at work on a three-block-long parking garage for New Haven's Church Street Project that looks like a Roman aqueduct. ("Automobiles should have their own architecture...
...deploring the "bad taste" with which it handled her husband's problem, closing her letter with "Je vous méprise [I despise you]." She changed obstetricians after the first one complained that the press would interfere with his work. One camera-laden photographer was surprised on her roof...
...love scene in The Lovers is, according to publicity, the longest in screen history. It is also, very likely, the most amusing. After bringing together under one roof, husband and wife, lover and stranger, after lingering over dinner, then coffee, and then brandy, the movie finally settles down to business...