One object in the Manifesto category, which covers works that convey a societal or philosophical statement, is the far-out "Pratone" (the word is Italian for lawn), designed in 1966 by an Italian trio known as Gruppo Strum.
Further study is needed to identify effective measures, such as lawn mower design features, for reducing human exposure to Chlamydophila psittaci and other zoonoses.
This is most noticeable in the 10 pavilions framing the Lawn, all designed in different styles.
Its neo-Gothic stone building, surrounded by a tree-filled lawn, was designed early in the century by Henry Vaughan, the first architect of Washington's National Cathedral.
A curving border of lawn was designed along the street, to offer a bit of formality to the neighbors and to indicate that the native landscape beyond was intentional.
Invention proposals sometimes arrive on handwritten letters and home videos addressed to the chief executive's office, on scraps of paper handed to sales representatives or -- in the case of a pink lawn mower designed as part of a lawn-and-garden set for women -- carried into the company's headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
"Like lawn mowers designed for people with long arms, who find it uncomfortable to push baby strollers, because the handles are too short". Another example is the difficulty experienced by female amputees in finding suitable artificial limbs, most of which are designed by male prosthetists seemingly for men.
IT'S THE GREAT LAWN!" In a design workshop tomorrow from 1 to 2 30 p.m. at Belvedere Castle, midpark at 79th Street, children 7 and older will imagine they are landscape architects with 13 acres of land to design.
The larger-than-life engineering involved lopping the edge off a cliff, flattening the lawn above and designing the wall to hold the soil in place.
