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...Take Venturi's Phillipe, for example. He was a civil engineer before the war, a practical and phlegmatic man who never raises his voice, even when he?s ordering the death of a traitor to the cause. He began his public life as a wrestler and it has been observed that in his presence he is the logical successor to Jean Gabin, another great screen actor whom the camera never catches acting. He just triumphantly is, a large, taciturn, slightly ponderous man whose compassion is totally implicit, yet somehow palpable - even when he?s overseeing the garroting of an informer...
...cheddar and bacon potato skins. Those snacks make life studying orgo in Cabot library so much more bearable. Yum, yum. Good snacks. Yep. Oh right, there aren’t any vending machines in the Science Center.Three: Exorcise the 802.11b demons. Prominent Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi called Sever Hall his “favorite building in America.” It shows “the validity of architecture as generic shelter rather than abstract-expressive sculpture,” Venturi wrote. To students inside Sever, however, it shows the pitfalls of delaying the outfit of a building constructed...
...Eames is still famous mainly for his chairs, and the best-known works of today's European caf-society designers--Philippe Starck, Enzo Mari--are chairs. Aalto, Breuer and Mies made their marks in the '20s partly by making chairs, and such contemporary architects as Gehry, Meier, Graves, Hollein, Venturi and Ambasz have all felt obliged to design chairs as well as buildings...
Never mind its sexy, carbon-fiber chassis or that it can zip from zero to 60 in less than 5 sec. What's really impressive about the Venturi Fetish, which made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show this month, is that it produces nary a puff of smoke: the Fetish is powered by 100 rechargeable batteries that keep it going for 200 miles. The Fetish is emblematic of a trend in the automobile business: carmakers realize that if they hope to sell more environmentally friendly vehicles (which account for less than 1% of the cars...
...strategic and symbolic value; determined to honor his leather-apron roots, he built the courtyard on a spot that lay squarely between posh and working-class neighborhoods. After he died, Franklin's grandchildren razed the place, thinking the property was worth more than the home. In 1976 architect Robert Venturi's ghost structure--a beam outline (to scale) of the home--was erected...