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On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a beat-up box of eight-by-tens of my Beaux-Arts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen? I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that very afternoon — for $2.75 an hour pay. I did.
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The activity of buying and selling food has shaped our cities and towns for centuries, since an urban population by nature depends on others for agricultural production. At the heart of this activity stands the public market — the buildings and spaces in which vegetables, meat, and other commodities intended for human consumption are sold by diverse persons from numerous spaces or stalls, all under a common authority.
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Museums today aspire to be open, transparent, and welcoming. However admirable these qualities appear from our 21st-century viewpoint, it is instructive to remember that at the height of the Gilded Age, when the American museum was ascendant, the opposite was true.
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More Building Culture Architect David A. Surbeck, 66 — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2008.0731Building a Dream House — Boston Globe, 2008.0731 The Dining Room Takes to the Streets — New York Times, 2008.0731 Bonding Humanity and Landscape in a Perfect Circle — New York Times, 2008.0731 French Architect Has Designs on Vegas Desert — NPR, 2008.0730 Old Asylums Decay, but Some Eye Pricey Restoration — Associated Press, 2008.0729 Lost in the New Beijing: The Old Neighborhood — New York Times, 2008.0727 In Ancient Alleys, Modern Comforts — New York Times, 2008.0724 Existing-Home Sales Down in June — Realtor.org, 2008.0724 A Spare Stage for the Spectacle of Life — New York Times, 2008.0724 Plundering of Heritage — The Daily Star, 2008.0724 Robin Hood in Queens — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0723 Architect Russell Francis Stechschulte Dies — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0723 Why Foreign Investors Love Landmarks Like the Chrysler Building — Bloomberg, 2008.0723 Jacob Blacker: Architect Who Assisted Goldfinger — Independent Digital, 2008.0722 Australian Conference Promotes Radical Building Design Changes — VOA News, 2008.0722 Will Our Modern Architecture Stand the Test of Time? — Portland Examiner, 2008.0722 Restored to Glory — The Star (Malaysia), 2008.0721 Still Not Booked Up? Then How about the First $1m Holiday? — Independent Digital, 2008.0720 Shattering Tales of Tattered Mosques — The Daily Star, 2008.0720 Chicago: It's an Architecture Lover's Kind of Town — Commercial Appeal, 2008.0720 Holocaust Architecture — The Star (Malaysia), 2008.0720 Paul Byard, 68, Dies; Architect Renovated Landmarks — New York Times, 2008.0718 1950s Building Shortlisted for UK Architecture Prize — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0718 Home Is Where the Head Is — New York Times, 2008.0717 George Hartzog, Parks Chief, Dies at 88 — New York Times, 2008.0717 Former S.I. Butcher Shop Is Now a Landmark — New York Times, 2008.0716 In Banking Crisis, U.S. Steps Up — Christian Science Monitor, 2008.0715 Rotating Revolution — Arabian Business, 2008.0712 A Design-Savvy City Defined — Crosscut, 2008.0711
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