Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mies's view, the new language began to be spoken about 1900, and it was first articulated not by architects but by engineers: "The most important idea in modern architecture is the skeletal idea developed right here in Chicago." In fact, it was photographs of Chicago and Manhattan steel skyscrapers under construction that inspired Mies's first models for a steel and glass tower. They led him to his skin-and-bones philosophy that structure was the probity of architecture and should stand clearly revealed behind panels of glass...
...German Pavilion (since destroyed) in Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition, a jewel-case structure employing the open planning first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright that combined the richness of bronze, chrome, steel and glass with free-standing walls...
Near Isfahan, surveyors were setting the final location for a $286 million steel mill that the Russians will construct for Iran. Other crews tramped across the desert and through mountain passes driving stakes to mark the route for a $450 million pipeline that will carry natural gas 800 miles north from Iran's southern oilfields to the Russian border. At Bandar Shahpur, still others staked out the site for a $100 million petrochemical plant, owned jointly by Iran and the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. Around the clock, workmen were building two new ports on the Persian Gulf...
...spite of huge and largely untapped coalfields, Australia imported coal from as far away as South Africa, still suffered power blackouts when supplies ran low. Today, 94% of Australia's growing power needs are generated by coal, there is ample coke for the continent's expanding steel industry, and a quarter of last year's record 50-million-ton coal production was available for export...
Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville...