Paul Klee and Saul Steinberg, among other modern artists, come to mind, but Ramírez's command of pictorial construction, a kind of strictly paced visual music, is all his own.
"The real trick for me is to figure out how many people are going to be living here 10 years from now," said Captain Boone, who has command of military construction on Guam.
He said the most important accomplishments that first year were organizing the command structure, beginning construction of military bases across Iraq, setting up officer training in Jordan and the noncommissioned officer academy, and attracting troop contributions from nine nations.
America's most successful intelligence operations during the Cold War had been saps, including the Navy's submarine penetration of underwater cables used by the Soviet high command and construction of the Air Force's stealth bomber.
Formal and conceptual analogies to architecture were abundantly evident on Balanchine's stage: cantilevered construction; command of gravity; off-balance compression; music as platform; transitions from private to shared to social space.
Clinch, whose command of character, setting and construction is masterly, has built his story on clues to Finn's fate in Chapter 9 of the original novel, found when a two-story frame house floats past Huck and Jim on the Mississippi River.
The biggest increase came when the Army realized, after changes had begun, that it needed an additional 750,000 square feet of construction for the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Center of Excellence at Aberdeen.
Thus, in the case of the straight line the intellect commands a construction of a line in pure intuition according to the concept of straight.
In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang out and play Mah Jong while the rest of us burnt to death in a shower of atomic rain.
