Word: tracee
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...rising prominence of Future Systems is one more sign of the remarkable shift in architectural taste over the past decade. One of these days someone will write a revisionist history of 20th century architecture that will trace the survival of a line. I don't mean a bloodline. I mean an actual line, a ribboning, curving one with sources in plant life and cellular forms and the swells and inlets of the human body. It was that undulating line that Modernism almost did away with when it swept into power in the middle of the 20th century, stomping its robot...
...Many of the Founders, in fact, trace their desire to go into space to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon in 1969. P.J. King was a kid, living in western Ireland, admiring the sky one night when his older brother started pointing out Orion and the constellations. "I said that's cool. We should go there. And my big brother says, you can't go there! I was angry and yelled, 'But I saw it on TV! They went to the moon'." Now 38 and living in Dublin, he laughs at the memory, but feels bad about not using...
...presence of their lifestyle of tennis and hors d’oeuvres. As the narrator grows older, she becomes more contemplative, and her exploration of her identity subtly becomes the main focus. Her fascination with the lives of her forebears is another facet of her drive to understand, to trace back attitudes about work and impractical dreams as far as possible to see how they change and how they stay the same.Although the collection clearly has its weaknesses, Munro is exceptionally strong when she is working with the engrossing material of her own life. Her wonderful gift for using strong...
...nearly every dormitory photograph, the beds are immaculate and tightly fitted, with no trace of the orphans, patients, or the itinerants who sleep in them...
...Trace These stackables give a high-tech nod to standard garden furniture. "Close your eyes, think of summer seating and you see this shape," says Shin Azumi, the Trace chair's London-based Japanese designer, who used Hirek, a clever polymer, for structural support. Any resemblance to a G-string is coincidental. Honest. www.desalto.it...