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Dan Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - Dwell time 5 minutes.
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Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:44:49 -0500
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>You must be thinking of Bauhaus (Gropius, Mies et al).
>>From "Bau", German root for words about building
>(verb is "bauen", a builder is a "Bauer").
>
>Here's another good one.  When the UIC architecture school moved
>into a converted loft building that had previously been a
>Formfit factory, they renamed it the Brahaus.

Uplifting thoughts from academe, to be sure.

See Ken, they can't be all bad.


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Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.         "Conformists die, but
Raleigh Historic                      heretics live on forever"
Districts Commission                        -- Elbert Hubbard
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