Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...there the similarities end, for Rossi is serious and original, deeply persuaded of his vision and never calculatingly fashionable. His work recalls the local vernacular (the silos, campaniles and old-fashioned factories of his native land) and the international architectural pantheon (Andrea Palladio, Etienne-Louis Boullee, Adolf Loos). Seamlessly, he combines the down-to-earth austerity of the former with the self-conscious erudition of the latter...
...times. He says he relishes "the richness of the countryside and the materials." His first U.S. buildings, finished last year, are two developer-constructed houses in, of all places, the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. The clapboard houses, unmistakably American, prove that Rossi practices what he preaches about deference to local styles. Last December construction began on what could be his most relaxed, and among his finest, work: a village-like tropically colored campus for the University of Miami School of Architecture...
...overwhelmingly black because of white flight to the suburbs. Federal District Judge Russell Clark adopted a sweeping "magnet-school" plan proposed by the school board, designed to lure white students back. When the school district was unable to pay the costs, Clark unilaterally doubled the local property...
...seems so obvious, yet Harvard ignores it: outstanding teaching should be recognized as an intellectual art form rather than a practical or vocational skill. The undergraduates at this institution did not overcome rigid admission requirements and astronomical tuition fees to receive the same type of education available at their local overgrown state universities...
...sublimate. And sublimate. The MCAT--which tests biology, chemistry, physics, reading and math skills--is the Moby Dick of graduate entrance exams. After taking the test, many pre-meds have to be be rushed to local emergency units and reassured that real doctors do not have to diagram electrical circuits. (Other pre-meds go on to take the LSATs and GREs before breaking to go to the bathroom, as part of the Irongrubber Triathalon. The winner never...