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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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More Building Culture Yale Restores Architecture Building, Loved and Hated '60s Icon — Bloomberg, 2008.0828Biggest City Sprawls Attacked — The Australian, 2008.0828 Architects Decry Urban Sprawl — Australian Broadcasting Company, 2008.0828 Wanted: Architect to Build Beirut's World-Class House of Arts and Culture — Daily Star (Lebanon), 2008.0828 Architecture College Settles into New Home on Main Street — Norman Transcript, 2008.0827 Landmark Seagram Building Celebrates 50 Years — Market Watch, 2008.0826 Architect a Pioneer in Cities' Restoration — Denver Post, 2008.0824 Architecture after the Flame Goes Out — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0824 Denver: Leave Your Cowboy Boots Home — Newsday, 2008.0824 Porsche's Kitchen for Men — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0823 Shelter Calls for £8bn for House Building Industry — Builder and Engineer (UK), 2008.0822 A Smashing Historic Residence — Montreal Gazette, 2008.0821 Little Pimple Is in a Prime Spot — BBC News, 2008.0821 Downsizing in Los Angeles: From Mansion to $47 Million Condo — New York Times, 2008.0820 Future of Brutalist-Designed Church Not Concrete — NPR, 2008.0820 Canadian Housing Market Dodging Worst of U.S. Meltdown — Calgary Herald, 2008.0819 Andreas Papadakis — Telegraph, 2008.0818 Florida Firm Is Furnishing New Life for Historic Building — Charlotte Business Journal, 2008.0818 Taming the Rate Demon — Economic Times, 2008.0816 AIA Architect Renker Testifies to House Small Business Committee Against Fee Retainage — AIArchitect, 2008.0815 Changing Skyline: Science Center Can't Seem to Get It Right — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2008.0815 Rome - Eternal City or Stuck in the Past? — Stuff, 2008.0814 Akron Art Museum Marks One Year Since Reopening — Akron West Side Leader, 2008.0814 Skyscraper Wars, Part Three — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0813 In Slow Times, Rezoning Appeals to Developers — New York Times, 2008.0813 An Architectural Gem in Germany Is Reborn — Architectural Record, 2008.0813 San Antonio Just Keeps on Sprawling — My San Antonio, 2008.0810 To Hell and Home Again — Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.0809 Oklahoma City Is Booming with Oil and a New Exuberance — New York Times, 2008.0808 Not Just Hearst's Architect — San Luis Obispo News, 2008.0807
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