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Midnight hour for Alaska's coastal plain.
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May 25, 2001|
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The law locks up both man and woman who steals the goose from off the common but lets the greater felon loose who steals the common from the goose.
--Anonymous
In 1620, a common was the acre of green II in a New England village. Villagers grazed I their animals there or met for a revival. In 2001, a common is something we fight over. It is a battleground of values.
The latest and most fragile common in public dispute is the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska. The Porcupine caribou herd, 180,000 animals strong, ...
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Auguste Perret redivivus. (View).
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...must let a woman design the glass', Perret is reputed to have told the Cure. Archive...are complemented by venerable items of Perret-designed furniture, selected books and magazines from Auguste Perret's own library, art works by friends...
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Auguste Perret. (Poor Perret).(Brief Article)(Review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...serious research that has been devoted to Perret, the enigmatic, even impervious quality...accessible'. Her aim is 'to understand Perret as he understood himself'. Needless...introductory chapter, which skates through Perret's career at speed, and sections of...
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LES FRERES PERRET: L'OEUVRE COMPLETE.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...the twentieth century, Auguste Perret's architecture was...1959, the year in which Auguste's widow gave the firm...rationalism', or look upon Auguste as a halfway house to...of architecture in the Perret firm's priorities...
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Travel: 48 hours in; Le Havre It's a gateway to Europe. But don't be fooled. It's a worthy destinatio n too. By Gerard Gilbert
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...five-storey blocks designed by Auguste Perret, and the eye does not deceive...war Le Havre's chief architect Auguste Perret as a monument to those who died...WINDOW SHOPPING The area around Auguste Perret's monumentally impressive town...
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Obituary: Pierre Vago International architects' union founder
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he visited Auguste Perret. Soon afterwards he had an interview with Le Corbusier...the age of 18, and found himself in the atelier of Auguste Perret, who was to become a lifelong friend. In 1932 Vago...
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LEADER / ROUND-UP
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; ...LECTURES COVER CONCRETE DESIGNS Owen Williams, Perret and Kahn feature in lectures organised by...18 April, Karla Britton talks about the Perret brothers' pioneering concrete work and Auguste Perret's later buildings and influence on Corb...
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What they're reading ...(books)
Magazine article from: Interior Design
; Auguste Perret by Karla Britton New York: Phaidon Press, $70 256 pages, 250 illustrations...design element," O'Brien says of this monograph on French architect Auguste Perret, who lived from 1874 to 1954, building apartment blocks in Paris and...
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Malraux modified.(Musee Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...mouth, the building broke with the idiom adopted by Auguste Perret and his atelier for the reconstruction of Le Havre...on the original building (all three former pupils of Perret) and continued to consult Lagneau throughout the design...
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Le Corbusier in all his contradictions BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...He's an odd duck," is how the French architect Auguste Perret described Le Corbusier to a neighbor, "but he'll...year-old Corbusier, who had earlier worked for Perret, a leading exponent of reinforced concrete, had just...
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Understanding Ernö
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; ...the centre of the Modernist creative universe. He may have mingled with avant-garde circles when studying under Auguste Perret in Paris, but manages to turn that into the self-regarding statement: 'Everyone always seems to have known me...
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