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Illinois Institute of Technology's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, architect of stark, skeletal glass and steel skyscrapers. Widely reckoned to be one of this century's three most influential architects (with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier), German-born Mies was trained as a stonemason. He headed Germany's revolutionary Bauhaus group of artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech...
ROME, my Mistress. Vitruvius, my Master, Architecture, my Life." Such was the trinity acknowledged by Andrea Palladio (1518-80), a stonemason's son from Vicenza, Italy, who grew up to rule over a whole generation of fellow architects and to recast the classic style of Rome and Greece with such elegance and authority that his Palladian style became one of the longest-lasting and most widely accepted personal idioms in the history of architecture. In an effort to preserve Pal-ladio's work (many of his most beautiful structures were made of common brick and perishable stucco...
...stern stuff and kept as unflinching an eye on life as on death. From her grandfather, a onetime Lutheran minister who founded the first Free Religious Congregation in Germany, she inherited a sense of compassion and a strong personal ethic. From her father, a Socialist law student turned master stonemason, came a reverence for craftsmanship and a social conscience. In her married life, she approved the decision of her doctor husband to devote his life to a clinic in Berlin's Northeast working-class section...
...stonemason in the village of La Huacana, west of Mexico City, Eulogio Serrano, 32. was earning 15 pesos ($1.20) a day working on the town's new school when he made up his mind to go to the U.S. and put in a season picking lettuce...
...humanity, believers in God, in fact most people, will find little comfort anywhere in Jeffers' work. Even now, an only slightly mellowed grandfather, he holds unshaken to his own credo. Never has he stated the essence of it more clearly than he does now in The Old Stonemason, one of the short poems in Hungerfield...