What affects people's quality of life is detail, says Liz Kessler, an associate at Rethinking Cities and urban design consultant: "If you attend to the detail of existing places, you can change them and make them workable without having to do major works".
For us this is one more example of the "New Muralism" that is enabling Street Artists to do major works in public spaces via non-traditional routes.
Ms. Taft also did major work in helping refugees both in America and abroad.
Many find that the most limiting factor in doing major work to the home is the uncertainty of cost.
Every lawn needs routine seasonal attention, but before doing major work, homeowners must consider how pristine they want the result to look, and the cost (in dollars and labor) to accomplish it.
The compensation, if there is any, comes from the chance to work in the shadow of architects who are doing major work - and, sometimes, to have some real role in the shaping of their projects.
So politics and funding policy aside, retrofitting has a clear value for social landlords – especially those able to harness the benefits of doing major work in high-rise blocks or over large estates.
A Polish philosopher, Roman Ingarden, did major work in structural ontology and analyzed the structures of various works of art in its light; Hedwig Conrad-Martius, a cosmic realist at the University of Munich, worked intensively in the ontology of nature; and others made comparable contributions in other fields of philosophy.
Paul Taylor and Merce Cunningham were still doing major work, but of the younger generation of choreographers, only Mark Morris, whose deliberately outrageous bad-boy antics concealed a profoundly subversive commitment to the supremacy of art over ideas, was turning out consistently compelling dances.
