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The firm's first building, a and Phillip Lopate's The Rug Merchant Trotti, Inc. 4 March - Robert Kliment, "Recent speculative house at 1811 Portsmouth (Viking Press). 26 March - Lecture by Mario Botta, Work." Street, remains in mint condition. Alas, "Recent Works." For reservations and U March - Malcolm Quantrill, "Lateral some of its better-known works are faring m- Impresario exlraordinario Scott information about both events, telephone Mindedness vs. Literal Mindedness in less well. The Houston Fire Alarm Harmon and crew on 7 February pulled the Rice Design Alliance. Alvar Aalto's Design Thinking." Building (1939) in the Civic Center, the off yet another memorable bash, »;Hol;i 1 April - Peter Eiscnman, "Realizing the first modern public building in Houston, Pali!.., the Archj-Arts Ball of 1987 at El Parish Gallery Fault" is slated for demolition by the City of Mercado del Sol. The Archi-Arts floor M.D. Anderson Hall, Rice University, 8 April - Diane Ghirardo, "Deceit and Houston, which also plans to deface the show featured living embodiments of 713-527-4870 Meaning in Postmodern Architecture." City Health Department Building great surrealist works: architectural 3 March-17 April - Exhibition: "Mario (1963) in the Texas Medical Center with a historian Richard Ingersoll was Botta." Drawings, photographs, and Department of Architecture, Texas gratuitous face-lift. Nearby in the Magritte's "Le Therapeute" (birds models of buildings and projects by the A&M University Medical Center. M.D. Anderson courtesy of printmakcr Karin Broker). Swiss-Italian rationalist architect. 409/845-7851 Hospital and Tumor Institute (1954), LA's Diane Ghirardo jetted in just for Organized by The Museum of Modern 4 March - Lecture by Peter Davey, perhaps MacKie and Kamrath's single the fiesta: she was escorted by archilect- Art. 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