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...signal event for Koolhaas came in 1999 when a project to design a new Los Angeles headquarters for Universal Studios collapsed after the company decided, in the frenzy of media mergers, it needed its money elsewhere. From that experience he concluded that architecture was too slow for a marketplace in which the global conglomerates that have the heft for the big commissions emerge and disintegrate in less time than it takes to turn blueprints into buildings--usually about five years. But there was worse to come. Over the next few years, proposals to expand the Whitney Museum in New York...
Those of us in the business know this is a genuine Mission: Impossible. There can be no such thing as 100% success when the terrorist adversary has to get through our defenses only once and there is no referee to ever signal that the match is over. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't work harder at preventing attacks. We can and must. The question...
...voluntary Creative Commons licensing scheme (creativecommons.org) designed by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig (who spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute earlier this year on the subject) Gab said it sounds like a “dope idea.” This system gives artists a way to signal their desired control over their work without the constant ambiguities and lawsuits that discourage innovation and synthesis today...
Spring weather this weekend, a big name band on the MAC quad, and a good time had by all will signal that the apocalypse is just around the corner...
DIED. JOSEPH ZIMMERMANN, 92, answering-machine inventor; in Brookfield, Wis. In 1948, when this U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran and enterprising engineer couldn't afford a secretary, he rigged up an 80-lb. contraption that used a lever to lift a phone receiver, a 78-r.p.m. record player to convey a personalized greeting, and a wire recorder to capture callers' 30-sec. messages. More than 6,000 of these "electronic secretaries" were in use by 1957, when he and a partner sold the patent to General Telephone Corp...