Charles Platt
The American Renaissance brought together architects, painters, and landscape designers who drew on classical European traditions to shape a distinctly American visual culture. Charles A. Platt was born in New York City on October 16, 1861, and worked squarely within that movement until his death in the same city on September 12, 1933.
Platt carried an unusual combination of roles into his career, practicing as an architect, a landscape architect, and a painter. That breadth gave him a particular position within the American Renaissance, since he could approach a property as a unified composition rather than a series of separate commissions. His garden designs complemented his domestic architecture, meaning the grounds and the buildings he produced were conceived as parts of a single whole. Huff Hall stands among his noted works, representing the kind of formal, carefully integrated design that defined his output.
The Library of Congress catalogues him under the authorized label "Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861–1933," a small but telling detail: institutions found his work significant enough to warrant precise, standardized identification. That careful record reflects the standing he earned across his three disciplines during the decades he spent contributing to the American Renaissance, a movement that placed high value on exactly the kind of synthesis between building, landscape, and visual art that Platt consistently brought to his projects.
Quotes by Charles Platt
It is a great skill and it is not gambling. Most people do not have the strength to sit and wait for cards.
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.