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Wilfred Armster
Wilfred John Oskar Armster was an American architect, and principal of the Connecticut-based Wilfred Armster Architects. Education and early work Armster was born in Manhattan in 1938, and raised in The Bronx, New York, until beginning college in 1956. After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Armster studied at several schools and colleges, including Gettysburg and Syracuse, and studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich, eventually completing his a degree in architecture at the University of Michigan in 1964. He began his career at the Detroit offices of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in the mid-1960s. After moving to CT in 1968 and working in New Haven, CT for Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates in the late 1960s, Armster established his own firm in Guilford, CT, in 1971. Residential projects Armster’s geometrically austere structures contain frequent references to bridges, walls and holes, and usually feature at least one side with no ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
