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Man Booker Prize

(Encyclopedia)Man Booker Prize and Man Booker International Prize: see Booker Prize. ...

International Booker Prize

(Encyclopedia)International Booker Prize: see under Booker Prize. ...

Otto, Frei Paul

(Encyclopedia)Otto, Frei Paul ôˈtō [key], 1925–2015, German architect. Most notable for his tensile and pneumatic structures, Otto was among the first major architects to experiment with lightweight design. H...

Man Asian Literary Prize

(Encyclopedia)Man Asian Literary Prize: see under Booker Prize. ...

Man Booker International Prize

(Encyclopedia)Man Booker International Prize, see International Booker Prize under Booker Prize. ...

Rossi, Aldo

(Encyclopedia)Rossi, Aldo älˈdō rôsˈsē [key], 1931–97, Italian architectb. Milan; grad. Milan Polytechnic (1959). He began working for the design magazine Casabella-Continuità in 1954 and became its editor...

International Prize for Arabic Fiction

(Encyclopedia)International Prize for Arabic Fiction: see Arabic literature. ...

Aravena, Alejandro

(Encyclopedia)Aravena, Alejandro 1967–, Chilean architect, b. Santiago, grad. Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago (1992). Inspired by public service as much as by aesthetic concerns, he has focused on in...

Hollein, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Hollein, Hans, 1934–2014, Austrian architect and designer. He studied with Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Richard Neutra. Opening his own practice in 1964, he established an internationa...