Word: shipwright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decaying elegance. It smells of ships; between it and the white, wooden dome the room seems a reassembling of some old dismantled Pequod. Wolbach stumps to the door leading out to the roof, then turns looking back, up at the white curve. "They say this was built by a shipwright, a man who built whaling boats," he says. "But it leaks...
Families. Despite these difficulties, many have found a new and permanent way of life, which frequently includes wives and families. More often than not, they do so with economic and educational assistance from the government. Says one, a two-year resident who is attending a free 50-week shipwright course and receiving a living allowance to boot: "There's no way I would go back. I'm getting an education and learning how to do something I want to do." Adds Herb Rains, 22, a former Army reservist who now works as a counselor for incoming resisters...
...past, gone through the routine Miesian curtain-wall phase, made his bow to Italian Baroque in his design for the U.S. embassy in Dublin and constructed a house in Connecticut framed like a ramifying tepee with 150 telephone poles (they were bolted together under the direction of a Norwegian shipwright). He also has designed buildings, like the Mechanic Theater in Baltimore, of an almost Egyptian heaviness. Currently his office is lodged on the top floor of a loft building overlooking Manhattan's East River. The loft is owned by a retailer of garden furniture who stores his surplus...