Word: thatches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chow-like Keeshonds prowl the grounds. A new, detached sleeping house has a tile roof, unlike the flammable thatch of the main house. Beside the beds are stacks of ammunition, shotguns, pistols and Belgian F.N. automatic rifles. In the hall are a telephone and a battery-powered two-way radio linking Louw to the Centenary post. Even with all this, though, Louw does not feel safe. 'There's money to be made here,' he said, 'but what good does it do if you don't live to spend...
...joints groaning, rounded the side of the mountain, and there, in the valley below, lay my destination. From the bus, Morochata, a town of 500 or so inhabitants, was dwarfed by the huge cliffs that vaulted high into the sky above it. The cluster of tin- and thatch-roofed adobe houses looked fragile at the foot of that implacable slab of rock, whose only distinction from the surrounding stark Andes was its lurid clay-red color, which seemed to brood over some dark mysterious secret life in the village below...
...make it the worst bombing error of the long Indochina war. At least 137 Cambodians were killed and 268 wounded. A mile-long string of more than 30 craters, running down the main street, had completely wiped out one-third of Neak Luong and heavily damaged another third. Thatch and wood shacks occupied by 3,000 soldiers and marines and their families were wiped out. The marketplace was destroyed. Even two-story steel-reinforced concrete buildings were shattered...
...studio of an architecture school than the luxurious corporate hives of other leading U.S. architects. Done in raw wood and plasterboard, it is defended by only one secretary. The 71-year-old Kahn can be found in a small room (stacked with battered tomes on architectural history), tossing his thatch of white hair and discoursing in a high, cryptic, unstoppable flow on the principles of his craft. There is probably no serious architecture student...
Wabi is one of the key ideas in traditional Japanese culture. It has to do with spareness, poverty and austerity. A teahouse, made of bare, unlacquered wood, with its straw thatch and river stones, displays wabi. Wabi is the rough, salty irregularity of a classical tea bowl, the plain twig in a flower arrangement, the coarse black cotton of a kimono. Its meaning extends beyond the sphere of aesthetics into a more general discipline; it suggests an uncluttered and precisely lived life in which the individual is brought into a clear relationship with nature and with his society. No matter...