The Academy of Urbanism, a body composed of architects, planners, engineers, developers and designers, bestowed this lofty title on the city's Northern Quarter, the Manchester Evening News reported.
Furthermore, he had a substantial impact on the development of architecture as a professional body through his involvement in the Architects Act of 1931 and the formation of a national body for architects.
Van Helden's 'You Don't Even Know Me' is an eyes-closed-pistols-to-the heavens moment, while the bouncy sweetness of Architects' 'Body Groove' makes its way across the early evening sun as a honeyed ooze.
The coffin bearing the body of Rajib Haider, an architect and blogger, was carried through the crowd in a public funeral at Shahbagh, a major intersection in Dhaka, the national capital.
Fourteen members were inducted into the academy's main body of 250: the architect Peter Eisenman; the artists Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman, Dorothea Rockburne, Edward Ruscha and Peter Voulkos; the writers M. H. Abrams, Amiri Baraka, John Irving, Garrison Keillor, Janet Malcolm and Jane Smiley; and the composers Samuel Adler and Carlisle Floyd.
Why did the body of such an eminent architect, who gave the 20th century some of its most spellbinding buildings, go unclaimed for so long?
"To be what most consider an island green, it should be in a lake or pond or other large body of water," said the golf architect Mike Hurdzan, a noted golf course historian and author of six books on golf architecture.
A self-proclaimed "body architect," the designer has worked with Dutch electronics company Phillips to investigate the future of humans' relationship to technology.
PARIS — To be modern in fashion today, a designer needs a sculptural knowledge of the human body, an architect's understanding of graphic proportions and an ability to absorb the digital revolution.
He is the author of Body Architect and founded The Art of Fitness & Life to help men and women integrate health & wellness into a life they love stress free nor without having to use tricks or lose their identity through the process.
