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Kibbutz, Then and Now | |
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Chandigarh: Vision and Reality | |
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KIBBUTZ, THEN AND NOW The first kibbutz, a voluntary collective community, sprang up on the shores of the Sea of Galilee almost a hundred years ago. It was formed by a group of young Jewish men and women from Eastern Europe fired by Zionist and socialist ideals.
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CHANDIGARH: VISION AND REALITY The golden jubilee celebrations of 1999 and 2000 marked fifty years since the conception of Chandigarh, India, one of the few built examples of modernist town planning. Now, planners and architects the world over are showing renewed interest in this unusual modernist city. In 1951, the French architect Le Corbusier conceived a master plan for the city — in only four days! Yet the image he created has become synonymous with urbanism of fifties.
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More Building Culture The Computer Industry Is In a Tailspin -- and It's Your FaultÝ — Ten Links, 2001.0829Protest by building workers — Irish Times, 2001.0829 Dismantling History With Care — Washington Post, 2001.0829 Architect Takes Praise in Stride — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0829 Parliament project team to meet design experts — Ananova, 2001.0829 Eye of the builder — U.K. Times, 2001.0829 Crown Hall at IIT gets landmark designation — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0828 Shubert Theatre to Be Razed for Offices — Los Angeles Times, 2001.0828 Wynn's Plans for Desert Inn Revealed — Los Angeles Times, 2001.0828 Digs in Britain Fit for a King — Baltimore Sun, 2001.0828 A serious approach to housing crisis — Opinion at Montreal Gazette, 2001.0827 Historic Homes Torn by Times in Istanbul — Washington Post, 2001.0827 Living rooms losing their prominence — Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2001.0827 The man behind the WWII memorial — Boston Globe, 2001.0826 State's house of history — New Jersey News Record, 2001.0826 Preserve of the persistent — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.0826 Museums in a Quandary: Where Are the Ideals? — New York Times at Yahoo News, 2001.0826 If the right person builds it, they will come — Baltimore Sun, 2001.0826 Architecture in the age of McDonalds — Economic Times, 001.0826 In with the new — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.0825 Steel on sand — Montreal Gazette, 2001.0825 Architects defy warnings over assembly brief — Financial Times, 2001.0824 Austrians Mourn Festival Hall — AP at Architecture Guide, 2001.0818
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