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James Roust dies


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+  From: Howard Ray Lawrence <HRL@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 11:18:00 EDT
forwarded. . .h. . .
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Donald MacDonald, Canadian, architect, San Francisco, California seems
to have the same social concern lacking in so many USA architects. Why?

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From: ag414@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Colin R. Leech)
Newsgroups: alt.planning.urban,alt.architecture
Subject: James Roust dies
Date: 14 Apr 1996 00:12:02 GMT
Sender: ag414@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Colin R. Leech)

Reposted from alt.quotations:

Ian Ellis (ian.ellis@xxxxxxx) writes:
> I caught this one on the fly from ABC Evening News with the announcement
> of the death of James (?) Roust.
>
> "Whatever it is that ought to be, can be."
> -- James Roust, architect and rebuilder of communities of
> affordable housing; abandoned warehouses as shopping
> centers and attractive city assets; and the original
> creator of Columbia, MD.
>
> Recalled from a casual mental note of what I thought I heard - subject
> to correction.
>
> ---
> . . . Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
>
>


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