Erring homeowners are asked by the architectural committee to bring their homes up to standard.
Perhaps the most onerous volunteer duty is the architectural committee, which tries to maintain the standards set down by Atterbury and Olmsted.
He is the target of a tax probe and his private security company, Oskord, has become subject to a campaign of raids and investigations from a variety of bodies, from the fire department to the Moscow architectural committee.
Opponents of the proposals are quick to point out that they have no quarrel with the three institutions but worry about the changing character of Old Westbury, where aesthetics is taken seriously and every building permit is subject to review by an architectural committee.
Furthermore, there are always tensions -- commonality of skills (can one team use MySQL and other Postgres?), common look and feel (do you want your surface area to look like Frankenstein?) etc. "Architectural Committees" are considered anathemas.
AN architectural review committee was then put into place, and Mr. Sandbo met with the committee "to make sure they conformed with the scale and style of the historic buildings" in the area, Mrs. Garant said.
Many houses have been expanded, but the association requires that changes be approved by its "architectural control committee".
Restrictive covenants are commonly used to limit property to residential uses and to prohibit building without the approval of an architectural control committee.
In testimony in 2003 by Cindy Adler, a member of the architectural review committee and Brian Adler's sister, the Bisnos' gates were deemed too "Vegas" for Beverly Park.
The Music Center, a powerful group of Los Angeles cultural elite, created an architectural search committee, Richard Koshalek, its chairman and the director of Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, found Gehry's design the best by far.
Frank Gehry, for example, has long used computers to help design, at times even fabricate, some of the trademark sweeping, soaring surfaces that define his style in buildings like the new Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, notes Jonathan Cohen, a Berkeley-based architect and chairman of the technology and architectural practice committee for the American Institute of Architects.
