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June 15, 2010 – 12:44 pm
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Tagged Abbot and Costello, agreements, airports, alleys, ambulating, and his wife, and Asian cities, and “Mechanization Takes Command”, and building’s decorative features. I particularly relished meeting and talking to old ladies, and building’s decorative features. I particularly relished meeting and talking to old ladies, and buildings; but also to design cultural centers, and Charles Moore; I created a lecture series called “Architecture the Making of Metaphors”, and Christopher Tunnard. The architectural historian, and Christopher Tunnard. The architectural historian, and columns. I saw the figure of Mercury attached to building’s corners in Leipzig, and columns. I saw the figure of Mercury attached to building’s corners in Leipzig, and Coney Island, and contexts and decided that to do so was healthy and worth while. Such an attitude kept our passport always in order and our minds unglued from our current context, and country. I could see the metroplex and understand the inner connections of people to their artifacts, and country. I could see the metroplex and understand the inner connections of people to their artifacts, and died in Zurich in 1968, and egg boxes from the corner grocery. The roof was made out of rope and spare blankets my Mom permitted me to use. Later, and egg boxes from the corner grocery. The roof was made out of rope and spare blankets my Mom permitted me to use. Later, and exciting. In this way, and Germany. For example, and Germany. For example, and get my glasses. This part of Niece was built on a mountain and had a myriad of side and winding streets, and get my glasses. This part of Niece was built on a mountain and had a myriad of side and winding streets, and government; I was street and office savvy and knew the ins and outs of education and institutions. I definitely had an urban attitude and multiple urban identities evolved from the street, and gutters. I cultivated this skill on both the streets of the city and the many long rides I made on the New York subway. I’d continuously sketch the people, and happenings in Manhattan, and Hardy. Now these streets were lined with dope peddlers and prostitutes. The police are right there watching and monitoring the activities and limiting there arrests by the availability of courts, and Hotel buildings. While at Yale, and Hotel buildings. While at Yale, and I did not stop asking adults at school or on the streets about each and every detail. So were the seeds planted of my passion for the city and its bits and pieces? About 45 years later, and instrumental to my maturity. In the Philippines, and instrumental to my maturity. In the Philippines, and intellect named “Barbara Allen”. With the encouragement of New York’s most famous radio disc jockey, and intellect named “Barbara Allen”. With the encouragement of New York’s most famous radio disc jockey, and Jewish best friends from whom I learned many colloquial, and later made cornices and hung drapes in thousands of apartments in hundreds of neighborhoods in the Bronx, and light posts. Indeed, and long before dawn I’d open the door to our two-family Faille Street house on the last street before industrial Hunts Point. I’d put my bare foot onto the red brick steps to descend to the gli, and management of programming, and mass transit system. The organization, and Michael Angelo sculptures. It is from this experience and my fascination with Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s surreal romantic 16 prints of “Imaginary Prisons” that I urged myself)to draw pen, and Michelangelo. In Milan, and modernized. Europe had its many special and peculiar customs, and modernized. Europe had its many special and peculiar customs, and most of the great books under the guide of Mr. Fjelde, and New Mexico. But, and on another ship, and opportunities they afford the individual. Yet there are cites where great art movements have thrived. In Hamburg, and opportunities they afford the individual. Yet there are cites where great art movements have thrived. In Hamburg, and Paramount theatres. These were inevitably coupled with spending pennies in the penny arcades on forty second street, and Paramount theatres. These were inevitably coupled with spending pennies in the penny arcades on forty second street, and planning of all this was in itself a demonstration of Europe’s version of new urbanism, and platform details. Especially impressive was the easy walk from the center of cities like Florence to its gardens in Fiesole. And, and platform details. Especially impressive was the easy walk from the center of cities like Florence to its gardens in Fiesole. And, and practically every European city. I saw the spaces, and practically every European city. I saw the spaces, and priests who could lovingly tell me of each detail of their neighborhood. Between these conversations and the ones on trains between one and another city, and ran to every factory till one kind worker gave me some sugar to relieve my suffering. Five years later, and ran to every factory till one kind worker gave me some sugar to relieve my suffering. Five years later, and reading every book on every fabric, and resources. It was always as lovely to me as a symphony and an especial work of art, and scale. At the airport, and scale. At the airport, and seated less than 150 people. Often the audience would sing or hum along with the players and converse with the players as they recited or sang their well known lines. It was the predictability, and secret storage rooms I could enter and explore, and shadows cast by the volumes. I drew the relationships between the buildings and the buildings that define plazas, and side streets that opens on to the town’s plazas and courtyards. As in Europe, and side streets that opens on to the town’s plazas and courtyards. As in Europe, and small hotels including a night’s stay in our friends beautiful in-city villa and wine tasting in the evenings the in nearby Grinsing suburb. Vienna is a wonderful place to window-shop in any, and social aspects of the gathering that the audience came to see. Each of the players was well known, and soon I was able to overcome my stuttering by reciting what I had memorized. I learned to first picture my words and then read them aloud when I sang or spoke. I also could not tie my shoelaces, and Spain, and the alleys behind buildings. My explorations were solo missions and since our block was very long there were many building stoops, and the Blois Valley palaces. My sketches of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and San Marco in Venice looked like the commercial picture postcards being sold around the world and expressing my love affair, and the glitter and gleam of the city. On such occasions, and the man’s life and arm were saved. There was a little four year old girl with blond curls and blue eyes that they would send over to our table to greet and give us a lovely little kiss. She wa, and the short trip from Vienna to Grinsing. In their way, and together we visited Fontainebleau, and trade over a long period of time. At that time, and understand the details of my surroundings. In America, and very friendly. I only mention this to note the difference in Saudi Arabia; I am not the first person to notice this difference. This difference both defines the essence of urbanity and its’ pass, and volumes made the streets and the experience of the city aesthetic, and vulgarity of cities and the people that rule. Such theaters were intimate, and was a Bohemia-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books, and welcomed me. The street language was open, and what Baedeker calls “walking tours”: where you purposefully plan or randomly walk the streets seeing, and when. As I learned to overcome my childhood fears as a mature urbanist, and who to avoid, and wink, and with a small overnight bag walked across the bridge over Lake Zurich seeing many white swans as I made my way to our special little hotel. Because musical culture celebrates urbanity, and wonderful. Wonders which sometime are mysterious and other times informative but very often works of art and craft. The intercity relationship we enjoyed between Washington to Reston was simila, and writing, Ara Ignatius little about cities escaped my attention. So much so, Arabic music, are themselves urban clusters. Ambulating in the Urban World Ambulating is the essence of the urban experience where ones own bodily motion controls the pace and direction as well as the selection, are usually in the 90s. The Harvard Law Review scores in the low 30s. Time Magazine is 52. 50 to 60 is for 10th to 12th grade (high school) Flesch-Kincaid grade Level: 12.0 (For most standard docum, art, Art History. Vatican, St. Peter’s, as each person was unique each place had its own identity and character. I remember many details of buildings and streets, as they not only link each other but “Space, as were the members of the crowd that gathered. Once again, at a fourth grade level but 12.0 is the score of Times Magazine. Discovering the Passion (8, Austria, “Never on Sunday”, “Space Time and Architecture”, back alleys, ballet, beautiful, because as I matured it seems that the only jobs and hobbies I had revolved around urban buildings, because there were no other available pensions, before I was ten, beginning at its rear base where the last street meets the looming mountain and the water falling into an open central basin carrying the water to feed the city. Every alley, behavioral psychology, benches, black, borough, both of which were places in the United Kingdom. It had its own modern and trendy character. All the buildings were new and well away from the poverty of the rest of the country. Most had well annou, boy salesman, bridges, Brighton, Brooklyn and the emerging suburbs of both Long Island and Westchester County. I even hung drapes in Manhattan’s richest luxury apartments such as the multi-story apartments on Fifth Ave and the o, building a vocabulary of vignettes, building form, business and professional practice. Disciplined Passion Through Pratt, but also started my own design and drafting company in which I employed some of my fellow students as apprentices. Later years, but also the role of the school in furthering urban thinking. As the Bauhaus in Deseau, but also whole plans would mentally transfer and enhance my urban understandings. It is no wonder that I was fascinated with the very essence and application of the metaphor. Like urbanism, but had admitted vehicular traffic they decided to again accommodate the pedestrian and close their streets to automobile traffic. In Munich, but I also recall some special events and people, But nothing more defined my urban prowess than the time I left my sunglasses in a restaurant at the top on the village mountain of old Niece and then was able to meander back up, by the time I left, campanile, car, carpet, carvings in stones, CBD, cellar stairs, cellars, Christina likened this city to the way she remembers Leipzig before the war because of its size, circles, cities, city, civilization, classified ads I’d perambulate the cities streets, cobble stones, cold night air, Colorado, commercial centers, commercial development, communal, contracting, culture, D.C. from New York City, day and night. I’d some times find a bar and have my maximum of one drink or after a party; I’d walk and feel the combined rush of the alcohol, design of buildings, details, development, dine out, door hardware and steps, doors, dormitories and support building that comprised this Olympic Village. It was a good example of a quasi-government and private enterprise to synthesize a combined urban renovation, Drake Park graveyard, Eddie Cantor, embroidery, England has other great cities where I had exciting adventures including Oxford; where I spent the night roaming the streets with Oscar Brown Junior after his outrageous performance of “Wam Bam, etc., etc. I’d especially enjoy winding up someplace strange. Before I was married, Europe's largest. I admired the steel and glass long span beams and many rail tracks and trains. Likewise, European, even local residents did not know their city as well as I did. I’d look for the local candy store, except this took place in about 1971. In Leipzig, exploring the alleys, facades, facades of buildings lanterns, familiarity, fantastic theatre, find the place, finding and discovering building, fire escapes, followed by a cup of coffee with Van Clyburn, foods and customs so that when we later lived in Puerto Rico, for example, former Designs for Business supervisor and now one of my best friends visited. I even invited my former Pratt professor, fountains, France, Frank Bozzo, friends and I would go to the “laugh” theatres to see the Marx Brothers, furniture, furniture and decoration. At twelve, furniture and doorknob. I knew then I needed more to satisfy my passion so I requested the name of the best school with the smartest and most knowledgeable teachers, gargoyles on New York and Paris buildings, gateways, Gene Kelly in an “American in Paris”, gentleman, Gerald Popiel, Germany housed the foundation of modern architecture, gigantic Baldacchino, gold leaf, great Bernini statues, grocer and music shop. Yes, habitats, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the “Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts” in the 1950's era. He has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech, Harold Macmillan, he and I got to be buddies and he let me try on his helmet. A year or two later, he was correct, her communist father world probably kill us both. In contrast, High-rise apartments, his world class Mondrian collection, I welcomed architect Geo Pontes’ kindness and hospitality. But nothing could compare to my hostess and her Capri pension with its view over the Mediterranean, I worked at night as a broadcaster at a Waterbury radio station. The owner of the station was none other than the chief engineer for the then famous all music station, I always had a great affection for everything Dutch. It seems that as a traveling bachelor I was able to meet many lovely ladies including the daughter of a British couple in Vienna, I became a radio announcer and when they divorced, I became a store helper, I bought records with my allowance money which I’d play and then I would write and memorize the words of all the songs. It was the day of radio, I can recall how I felt in Dubrovnik in 1963 when I’d walk down the streets, I continue my love affair with the city to have a personal experience with my surrounding context while living through my urban passion., I could not stop photographing the excellent views through one and another portico, I didn’t know what else to ask for so I just pointed. Of course, I drew St. Paul Cathedral and every different town-house building type. I particularly enjoyed the elegant and stately townhouses facing elegant parks. You know the ones you see in Sherlock Holmes’, I drove his limousine where I again was able to memorize the many streets, I drove on streets devoid of pedestrian traffic as though I was in a suburb, I enjoyed eating spaghetti every day while enjoying the plazas and campaniles of so many cities and villages including a cafe rendezvous with an American female stranger in Verona. In these circumst, I enjoyed playing with the goats on one of the canal bridges. My urban passion was able to make metaphoric connections between perceptions to make the strange seem familiar. Not only details, I enjoyed the small cameo opera theatres in Italy’s villages such as Lucca and Sienna where I saw performances played in the same costumes and same theatres as when composers such as Puccini first, I felt likeI personally knew the Medici family, I felt like I was going to die, I found that I had a plethora of visual and graphic vocabulary, I found the school’s radio station and when I later studied architecture at Yale, I had a backstage view of a performance at LaScalla, I had already visited, I had been immersed in urban economics, I had fought and been beaten in enough urban alleys to be selective, I learned more about architecture at Yale, I learned the vocabulary of many languages. Horary for the famous “Euroail Pass”, I looked forward to the occasional dark and mysterious courtyards and alleys. In hilly and foggy San Francisco, I met a religious man and philosophized about our place in the world. I also saw women displayed in store windows on the notorious Raperbahn. Also, I met another like-minded world traveler, I Met Christine Keeler at the House of Lords and saw her fate being disputed, I met Dutch Henny d’Munch who zealously took me back to stay with her parents in the world’s windmill capital of Kinder Dyke. Since growing up in New Amsterdam, I never could pass a church and I built my vocabulary of these buildings including noticing the details of fountains, I not only worked part time for some of the leading architectural and engineering companies in the New Haven area, I oriented myself on major boulevards, I particularly enjoyed visiting Soho before it was made popular by the creation of the mini skirts and the Beatles. In London, I particularly enjoyed photographing the largest terminal railway station in Europe, I pictured people like the character played by Deborah Kerr in the 1957 David Lean movie with Cary Grant called An Affair to Remember. In Paris, I reached Yale I had worked in New York City professional design offices designing commercial interiors, I read Ayn Rand, I regarded D.C. as a small but formidable town. However, I savored the hundreds of doors, I shared this story with my Turkish friend, I spent an entire day with a young female gypsy who welcomed me into her family camp. They only visited cites and urban areas but preferred to live in clusters and had no agreements with any one or, I stayed in a small hotel with my family. The tree lined streets were dimly lit by street lights which cast wonderful leafy shadows across the pavement which when ever I left my building in Saudi Ar, I teamed up with three Jewish boys, I too asked him why he was doing all this and he said it is “his life”. That’s urban! In South Africa’s Johannesburg called Jo'burg I visited SOWETO (South Western Townships) and the homes, I took no photographs. I thrived on perceiving and recalling the images, I used Baedekers street guide and walking tours and when we settle or visit any American city the AAA map would give me the major North South and East West axial streets. Manhattan has a perfect co, I visited a lady in a restaurant and the homes of several people in the villages, I was formally introduced to the concept of “ambulating” in Spain where “Ambulatoria” is a custom people perform at night before dinner following the after noon rest or work. It is what we d, I was passionate and got paid top dollar at one dollar per foot, I was right at home. In the same way, I was scoffed at because of my dismal public and high school grades. They sent me to a local junior college where some special teacher came up with a solution and appealed to the Pratt registrar, I was to meet Bedouins with similar points of view. In fact, I worked full time during one summer as a Good Humor man and also for my father, I’d particularly relish the design and width of the familiar sidewalks. Taking advantage of the multiple paths afforded by the Manhattan street grid. I’d walk to and from work, I’d build miniature stages and scenery out of “Marcel” tissue boxes and exhibit them on our oriental curio cabinet, I’d bus to the “Y” and later the Yale club. On a Saturday afternoon, I’d explore the cellars where coal was stored and especially the underground grease pits below the street parking garage accessible from our Home Street apartment building. It was in this apartmen, I’d go to a movie and walk Broadway. I particularly found it thrilling to walk the dangerous streets of 42 Street between sixth and eighth Avenues where 25 years earlier my little brother, I’d meet some one like the time I followed and met a lovely model. In Manhattan, I’d often calm my fellow westerners and Midwestern Americans that we see more crime in one day than Saudi sees in year. I’d ambulate in Europe, I’d order breakfast delivered to my room onto a table in front of my window so I could view the city as the sun’s rays evaporated the dense fog. The same fog I experienced in Castine Maine wher, I’d walk in the rain and snow, if you wear taps on your shoes, in Paterson, in the tenement on Simpson Street, in a café, in Amsterdam, in every city I ever visited, in Germany with my wife on New Years Eve in Berchdesgarten, in Mexico, in Milan, in my pajamas, in Paris, in Saudi Arabia, in the nearby Galleria. Nothing was more urban than a chance meeting followed by a brief but platonic romance with a female student in Toledo. Packing a picnic lunch she took me up a small mountain, in which quartz is completely recrystallized or present as ribbon-grains forming continuous and almost planar layers over large distances; which is not unlike today’s fiberglass reinforced concret, including the gargantuan and opulent Shangri-La hotel. Adjacent to the lobby was a very large lounge where musicians would play while the most well dressed beautiful young ladies served drinks and , individuals and groups to meander and stroll. I recall a chill winters day when I stood under a cover of a shed serving “Grog” in a sub-freezing winter blizzard while my wife looked down upon me, informative, institutions, interiors, iron guardrails, Israel National Bank, it was like a café, it was the first concept I‘d grasp to orient and direct my way. In Europe, its style and panache, James Talcott Factorers, John Cage, just like the one I recalled from my childhood with my father in Washington. During our twenty years in Saudi Arabia, King Faisal University,Saudi Arabia, Dammam University, know, landmarks and neighborhoods. These plans and my sketches filled my book of these cites. However, Leipzig's “Hauptbahnhof”, less than four years old, like many Mediterranean fishing villages, like the old men I had talked to on Los Ramblas in Barcelona, London has a large number of distinctly different neighborhoods resulting from waves of migration, Long Beach, Machiavelli, made me an extraordinary architect. He said that I was “called” to be an urban architect, Manhattan, manholes, many baby seals and chimps on the road. A line of many connecting hillside white stucco urban villages spectacularly frames Cape Town’s Pacific Ocean shores where one is more beautiful than some, many of the Mexican city’s courtyards are behind their streets and connected by a system of alleys and walkways that take you from one to another without going to the major streets and away from v, many urbanized Saudis still prefer there own tribes to any allegiance to a city or the kingdom. Both the gypsy and Bedouin are inherently anti-urban. Yet they both work and live well in dense group, mapped, marbles, Max Waldman, medical centers, minarets, modes of transportation, monuments, my cousin Owen, my favorite was the peep show card flick for a penny, my great books teacher. I was blessed to have the Hollywood actor John McGiver as my high school English teacher who taught me to read and appreciate Shakespeare and off-Broadway theater. I myself, my life has been a kind of prototype or model of an urban person. Perhaps I did more than most and what I did exaggerated the diversity of an urban person. I found that, my pension’s hostess, my urban passion combined with my romantic-mind as when I guided a young Danish girl though her own city of Copenhagen who finally told me that I knew her city better than the natives did. I also e, my urban passion compelled me to befriend my Contemporary Theories professor, neither Christina nor I were travelling to be adventurous or part of a class of people. We were caught up in the opportunity to change environments, New Jersey. With the encouragement of Dean, New York subway, nod, not only did I get great grades but also I savored my courses in sociology, nothing beats the English breakfasts lavished upon me by the inn-keeper’s wife on the Themes in the heart of London. Like most big old cities, now New York, occasionally, October 2, On a ship to Holland, on the French Independence Day (Bastille Day) I drove and the open-top car ride down the Champs ‘Elise while we shot guns into the air. My first visit to the Momarte and the Moulin Rouge in Paris, one block from my bachelor apartment I found a small Hungarian restaurant with burgundy velvet wall paper where a violinist serenades the tables. What a great place it was to bring some one special., one is compelled to walk in search of views and vistas one street after another. I made it a habit to make a free hand sketch of the city plan of each city I visited with the help of my memory of my, ones who would really know the answers to my hundreds of questions. One teacher told me that “Pratt” was the best. When I applied, only this time to see the Rome station getting larger and larger. When the train stopped and chills over my body subsided and after stashing my suitcase in a locker, Opera singers, or gateways each vista and turn leads to something interesting, or perform some business. I always enjoyed hunting and discovering the personal and artistic place in any city I lived or visited. Even in Manhattan, or boulevard where one came to “see” and “be seen”. I had no less joy for the Franz Lehar operettas in Vienna. These quality events hearken me back to the breathtaking performances I enjoye, or perhaps gossip. Ambulating in this way is not walking to get some where or necessarily see things. I regard ambulating as a crossover behavior connecting rural and urban populations. Arabs and, or take the shuttle into town, orange crates, Orchard Beach, others to zip coffee while a man plays a zither. And, our trip to the western states from College Station was arranged and planned in twenty-four hours; when I heard the temperature forecast would reach 104 degrees and used this as an excuse to go to t, Owen’s law text book is widely used in law schools and he advised Eritrea about its constitution. We traveled with very short notice. For example, pageantry, Palisades, patterns, pavement, pediments, perhaps flirt, pin-ball, plaza, plazas, poet, politics, porcelain, President Tito was like her father. Additionally, prose that is read by a majority of adult readers in the country, public transportation, Puerto Rican, put a Tourniquet on his lower arm, remodeled, residential and private zones and then in the evening investigate the other side of the cities night and cosmopolitan life. Within a short while, restaurants, rivers, romantic and artistic are the aesthetics of cities there is the more mature and technical side, Sandown and Bryanston, sat him down and gave him lots of water to drink. The whole crowd were German tourist there for the holidays who had been many times to this place and because we were new and outsiders they had give, Saudi Arabia, say hello, school, section, seeing its landmarks, sensuous, serial jingles and program introduction' classical musical themes and words. It was in this way that I learned to read and write, sewer’s, shacks inside sawdust piles, shades, she and her actor friends and I sang and danced in the isles. During the height of the sixties my Cousin Louis Abolofia and Christina’s close friend, shooting, shopping in different ways on one combination of contiguous streets then by turning a corner another street and then yet another. The grid made such walks exciting and adventurous. On the weekends, silks, small tunnels, smelly, smiled, so all of my studies also took me to the very best urban schools where I could additionally experience more urban culture. Before I was to leave New York City in 1973 at the age of thirty six, so did Zurich and Giedion for urbanism. In Zurich, so I likewise memorized all the soapbox, so I was bold but wise….this is called “street savvy”. Knowing who to look in the eye, so my perception was at its peak. I was eager to learn and develop my abilities to design not only interiors, Spain, stadiums, stained glass, stairs, statues, steam billowed from old locomotives as they came and went in the covered Paxton-like green house-like steel and glass enclosure. Urbanizing and urban acculturation is a matter of making connections, Strand, street, street furniture, street people, streets, such as the highest finite strain as a mylonite, such visits were reminiscent of my visits to the gravity built shacks in Puerto Rico’s La Pearla. My Saudi Arabia colleague and I ate well at various restaurants in Sandton’s Montecasino distri, such walking and ambulating has been my life’s recreation and access to experiencing the “art form” of my choice: architecture. Interior design has to be seen inside of the buildings and in al, suddenly resigned as an indirect result of the Profumo scandal involving Christine Keeler. Of course, surely, synaptic, talk and look at each, tanks and Jeeps. One day we found a barrel and I ate a hot pickle which seemed to burn within my whole body, Ted Brown, Thank You Mam”. However, that on one four month trip visiting seventy-two cities all I did was pen and drawings of most every thing I saw, that was not enough I’d explore the roof tops and fire escapes and chimneys; all that without crossing the street or leaving my block. These were the earliest manifestations of my urban passion. , the Zurich airport is a terminal for both its inter-city railroad and inner city shuttle trains. It was so convenient to fly from Khobar to Zurich and spend a few days before taking sixhour mini- “c, the Budapest station and the many other stations I traveled. The Budapest station was particularly authentic and urban; it still had the turn of the century decorations and had not yet been cleaned, the city is a work of art and to me shall always be one of mankind’s finest achievements. I had this point of view partly because I walked in immunity to the potential and unknown dangers around m, the city tourist bureau assigned me to a girl’s dormitory for my entire stay. One of its residents told me that because of the care for her and the people, the Conservative Prime Minister, the Dubrovnik, the easy walks in Capri and Ana Capri built by Mussolini filled with walks and benches with spectacular views, the Englishman taught me a great deal about the Roman’s settlement of this and many other European cities. I partially enjoyed seeing Vienna before it was later covered up, the entire central business district in side the old wall called Marian Platz and its connecting network of sidestreets was closed to traffic and became a pedestrian boulevard, the features of buildings. And, the features of streets, the first time I slept in a down bed and when I awoke, the Green Crescent was very pleased and commended me on my correct treatment, the men and women who filled the streets looked me over up and down and sideways. Women looked you in the eye, the metaphor was universal, the next morning and every meal there after we were treated like honored guests and in the most loving way. Of course, the next morning ate a whole apple pie for breakfast. In a bakery, the pavement, the Saudis surround there house’ with walls while the Bedouins keep their tents separated and shielded with hanging carpets. I enjoyed many of Italy’s formerly royal and natural cities including, the sidewalks of New York are made up of cement insitu-formed from naturally deformed quartzofeldspathic rocks, the state University in Albany, the title of a great modern book written by Siegfried Giedion. Giedion was born in Prague in 1888, theatre, then screen writer and Chef Editor of Progressive Architecture magazine, there are the cafes; especially memorable are the open cafes in the Italian central plazas and the elegant cafés in Switzerland, they announced that the place had nothing infectious nor contagious that would have emanated to them or the great artist. This observation about this small and ancient city was a profound comment a, they glitter and gleam, they thought that was the end of me. Well, they were similar to Rye, this time from Lapland with whom I went to East Germany; who assured me that if she were to marry me, Three Stooges, tiles, Time, to my garage, to New Haven to present his ideas of metaphors at my lecture series. I wasn’t the only member of my family with a passion for urbanism. During this same time, told the women to call the Green Crescent, traffic patterns and neighborhoods of the Bronx, tunnels, urban cluster, urbaneness, ushered us through the most artistic, using maps, using my childhood street-models I try to find the cultural anchors in the neighborhoods I visited. I understood and enjoyed the hierarchies of building neighborhood, venues, Versailles, Vienna’s Sacher and Zurich’s Springli for coffee, Vincent Scully was my Yale student- adviser and I got to know New Haven’s Mayor Richard Lee over many personal conversations about this wonderful program of planning and selecting the world’s best, Virginia it was the converse. My final impression of DC was when I came for a one week conference from Saudi to be a guest at the Willard hotel and was driven to and from the airport in a black Lin, Wagener wrote “the ring”. In England, walkways, walls, water falls and breathtaking views. It is here in the adjacent city of Positano that the German composer, water gushing onto fountains on the sides of buildings and in the middle of backyard plazas in Italy, we enjoyed the side streets staying at either the Fairmont or Mark Hopkins Hotels at the very top of Nob Hill. In the morning, we enjoyed the Sprungli Cafe on bahn Hofstr for chocolate cake and coffee. We often slept in an inner city hotel and on a street with great sausages sold on an open cart, we had extravagant “la dolce vita” “parties and good times in the streets and theaters. She was my first interior design client and I not only hung all the drapes in their former residence but, we moved to a tenement in the Morrisania Fort Apache neighborhood where I continued my practice of exploring the urban streets to discover sewers, we were able to see such an undertaking from the “underground up” when we visited Munich to make a report to the Mayor of the city of New York about the many things Germany was doing to improve, we were not only aware of Roth’s own architectural achievements, we would visit the hotels in the evening, what ever it was in prior years. I had detailed hand-lettered describing each and every city that I visited. I wrote them in carbon copy letters. One of my father’s clients was so impressed with, what I have done in hundreds of Cities I have visited, when, when I stuttered and stammered; and after my father had bought me a phonograph, when I visited Washington, when we lived in RESTON, where he became chairman of the graduate school of design. MIT's school of architecture was the first in the United States and the American Institute of Architects claims to have had something to d, where I entered the glowing Blue Grotto and the mountain high flight of stairs I had to ascend to come home. In Solerno, where I noticed the architecture and colors of the mid-east. In every city all over Europe, which electronically signaled the house speakers. He was the anchor of the room giving it, which articulated one from another building and the 700 plus parks designed and built between 1947 and 1986 by architect Aldo van Eyck. The parks and the way they integrate into the neighborhoods of, which crossed and intersected. But most of the Mediterranean cites streets skirted the hilly terrain. even the spectacular Amalphi with its back walks, which discourage public exchanges and intercourse. In contrast, which first hit me when in Luxemburg, which had many of the period’s most creative urban architects and scholars including Robert Venturi, which is equally as thrilling. It was introduced to me by my father as he perennially reiterated the traffic flow and structure of New York City’s streets. Later when I’d visit any city, which made me very passionate about my profession which was becoming very real. He said this was very rare and lucky for me for my whole life. Indeed, which now needed explanations, which proclaimed their identity. After one week, which still linger in my mind. For example, which stood in front of the corner candy store and ice cream parlor. As for recreation, which takes you to the inner city in a jiffy. The muti-level terminal also has lockers and showers and I often left our bags at the station, which thrived long before the auto, which we inherited from my grandmother. This was all my idea of playing and exploring. As I matured, which were filled with Ripley’s believe-it-or-not, while being in the middle of a big city. Pedestrians could be found in Malls and suks but not ambulating on the streets. I recall being in the city of Bari in Italy and noticing the same thing. I al, while makes a very detailed sketch of the House of Lords. In 1963, while traveling as a bachelor, who agreed that if I could get great grades at Columbia’s School of General Studies they would admit me, who as art students were going to Arles to discover the source of Van Gogh’s genius. They proudly showed me the numbers on their arms, who had been a writer in England for the Voice of America and was a member of the Polish intelligentsia. He mentored me in urbanity, who invited me to entertain their daughter since we all shared a pension in the outer ring. In our tours, who owned a limonene rental business, who was working as a clerk for Thrurgood Marshal went to Watts to mitigate the rioters while other rioters marched right past our Orchard Street window in New Haven. Today, who when we met was pleased to meet and accommodate an American who she happily called a gangster which became my Solerno nickname. Her charm made me overlook her presumptuous generalizations. Perha, who without shoes walked the empty streets, wide and free for vendors, window and door way leads to another open space and vista. The same can be said of Venice except with more opulence and surprise as one ambulates along and across canals and observes the distinct de, window displays, with my few and chosen older-best-friends Billy and Ralph I would explore the factories, with what I earned from this job I was able to pay my tuition and fare to travel Europe and other American cities. While I attended college, WPAT, writers should aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70) Comics, Wyoming, yes, you can both board the train to Kitsbuhel, you can hear them click as you walk. Ambulating has allowed me to walk the streets and get lost in cities. I know... I’d loose my self in the streets and find my way back to reality by somehow see
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