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SHAPING MIDDLE SCHOOLS Stop into a science class at Angola Middle School in Angola, Indiana, and you might hear a discussion of how human bacteria has launched a multi-billion-dollar, international perfume and deodorant industry. At Edgar Allan Poe Middle School in Annandale, Virginia, eighth-graders in math and science may be checking the stock reports to review the latest figures for major consumer product and pharmaceutical companies.
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PRACTICE PARTNERING PARADIGM The future appears to favor three types of architectural practice: niche specialists, global giants, and local practices. This is the view shared by three U.S. firms, each an international leader in its specialty. Together they are crafting an innovative response.
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WILLIAM TURNBULL - BUILDINGS IN THE LANDSCAPE We ended up on the rugged north coast of California, on an overgrazed sheep meadow, hard by the surf breaking at the foot of the rocky cliffs. The ground was not flat but shaped into low mounds and swells, edged on one side by the ribbon of Highway 1 and indented on the other by ocean forces seeking weak points in the rock.
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More Building Culture Death by a thousand flats — Editorial at Guardian Unlimited, 2001.0604Methodists reject planning rules for churches — Irish Times, 2001.0603 Historic Scotland accused of leaving church treasure to rot — The Scotsman, 2001.0603 Company restroom becomes all-purpose refuge — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0603 Time Is Eroding Savannah Monuments — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0603 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Donated — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0601 Windows on Wright's World — New York Daily News, 2001.0601 Downtown Site Proposals Aired — Las Vegas Sun, 2001.0601 Architects Rush to the Ramparts in a Battle Over Creative Credit — New York Times, 2001.0531 (registration required) Frank Lloyd Wright was art dealer, too — Virtual New York, 2001.0530 Preservationists hope to restore Arkansas plantation home — Dallas Morning News, 2001.0530 Habitat Builds Homes for Seniors — AP at Architecture Guide, 2001.0530 Preservationists target unlikely site — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0529 Curiosity in concrete — Montreal Gazette, 2001.0528 More on The Master of Less — Newsday, 2001.0527 A hall in the heart — U.K. Times, 2001.0527 Clash of the titans — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.0527 Another window into the Wright world of design — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0527 British designer Penelope Hobhouse bridges the great gardening divide — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0527 Woodcarver's trained eye looks for inner beauty. — Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2001.0527
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