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Gandhi loved Jewish architect, biography says
Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi left his wife for a German-Jewish architect and weight lifter, a new biography says. The new book, \”Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India,\” by former New York Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, reports that Gandhi was in love with Hermann Kallenbach, for whom he left his wife in 1908.
Designing woman preserves observatory’s past for future
Brenda Levin, associate architect for the renovation and restoration of the original Griffith Observatory building and grounds.
Which came first: the building or the dress?
\”Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture,\” opening Nov. 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown, proposes that building design and haute couture have increasingly begun to overlap and borrow ideas from one another.
A Healer Returns
niel Libeskind is coming back to New York to help heal the wounds created on Sept. 11. He won\’t be working with words or medicine but with stone, cement, glass and steel.