Archinet.www.archinect.com/about.html You can get the flavour of Archinet as soon as you open it from its subtitle sub·ti·tle n. 1. A secondary, usually explanatory title, as of a literary work. 2. A printed translation of the dialogue of a foreign-language film shown at the bottom of the screen. tr.v. 'pimpin' architecture since '97'. Cheerful, eclectic, often irritating (try the opening graphics), sometimes fun and illuminating, the site is a contemporary descendant of '60s California, a sort of grandchild of The Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog was a sizeable catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Its purposes were to provide education and "access to tools" in order that the reader could "find his own inspiration, shape his own with Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. somewhere in the lineage. Contents are often remarkably similar to what granny used to show 30 years ago: Arcosanti (the Venice workshop), Urbanizing Bamboo, Mobile Architecture and so on. Some of it is jolly good (very interesting to know what's happened to Arcosanti after all these years for instance, and there's a lot of potential in bamboo). Some entries are rather turgid turgid /tur·gid/ (ter´jid) swollen and congested. tur·gid adj. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated; tumid. turgid swollen and congested. , and others wonderfully pretentious. But if you've got the time to battle through the graphics, it's worth a visit; you'll certainly find surprises. |
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