Word: architect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimately with the station, if all goes according to plan) is simple. Take seven different artists, more than seven different materials, and no matter how hard you try, you get a series of isolated visual incidents." Even the co-sponsors of the project can't agree in philosophy. Architect Cambridge Seven hope to express "the nature of a subway station as one of transition and movement, a place where people are 'passing through' en route to a destination...
...taken advantage of a trick called "rotoscoping", a painstaking process which involves tracing the projection of live-action footage, frame by frame, onto paper laid over frosted glass. The result is a strange breed of fantasy and reality, true proportions with great fluidity--trained nonchalance, like an architect's handwriting. It is a common technique and can be discerned in this weekend's Animation for Live Action, by Vera Neubauer, as well...
...trips, however, presented something of a security risk. So when he designed a brand-new $6 million jail for Roanoke, Architect John Marfleet included a baptistry. "We conferred many, many times with the councilmen and the jail study committee to see what religious purposes should be incorporated," says Marfleet, who believes that contemporary jails should try to anticipate every human need...
...curious parallel, during his Japan visit last October, Teng insisted on visiting disgraced former Premier Kakuei Tanaka. architect of Japan's 1972 normalization of relations with China. Tanaka had resigned from office in 1974 under pressure for allegedly having taken $2 million in bribes...
Replacing the Shah's portrait were hundreds of thousands of pictures of the man whose single-minded determination had at last succeeded in bringing down the Shah. The exiled leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, had become both symbol and architect of the Iranian revolution, and presumably was weighing the appropriate moment to return to claim his due. Within hours, virtually every public square and boulevard once named for the Shah had been renamed for Khomeini...