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Safdie
Israeli-Canadian architect. Educated at McGill Univ. School of Architecture, he began his career in the offices of L. Kahn. His Habitat '67, a prefabricated concrete housing complex of individual apartment units stacked irregularly along a zigzagged framework evocative of an Italian hill town or a pueblo, was a bold experiment in prefabricated housing using modular units; it aroused intense international interest but failed to catch on as a low-cost housing construction method. Later works include Yeshivat Porat Joseph Rabbinical College in Jerusalem (1971-79) and Coldspring New Town near Baltimore (1971). He served as director of urban design at Harvard Univ. 1978-84.


Sardis
Ancient city, Asia Minor, east of Smyrna. It was the chief city and capital of the kingdom of Lydia from the 7th cent. BC and the first city where gold and silver coins were minted. It fell to the Persians c.546 BC and passed to the Romans in 133 BC. Destroyed by an earthquake in AD 17, it was rebuilt and remained one of the great cities of Asia Minor until the later Byzantine period. It was obliterated by Timur in 1402. Its ruins include the ancient Lydian citadel, but excavations have uncovered more remains of the Hellenistic and Byzantine city than of the ancient Lydian town.


candida
Any of the parasitic imperfect fungi (see fungus) that make up the genus Candida, which resemble yeasts and occur especially in the mouth, vagina, and intestinal tract. Though usually benign, candidas can become pathogenic, causing diseases incl. candidiasis and thrush.


Cardiff
City (metro area pop., 1995 est.: 303,000), capital of Wales. Located on the Bristol Channel in SE Wales, it is the seat for S. Glamorgan and Mid Glamorgan counties. The Romans built a fort there c.AD 75, but the town itself was only established with the arrival of the Normans in the 11th cent. Its population was small into the early 19th cent., but by the early 20th cent. Cardiff had become the largest coal-exporting port in the world. The coal trade ceased in the 1960s, but the city remains the largest in Wales and its principal commercial center.


Cardin
French fashion designer. At 17 he went to Vichy to become a tailor at a men's shop. After World War II he joined the Parisian fashion house of Paquin and designed the costumes for J. Cocteau's film Beauty and the Beast (1945). In the 1950s he opened his own shop, designing gowns for costume balls and ready-to-wear collections for men and women. He was a master of the bias cut. His men's clothing has influenced other designers, incl. Bill Blass.


carding
In yarn production, a process of separating individual fibers and causing many of them to lie parallel, and also removing most of the remaining impurities. Cotton, wool, waste silk, and man-made staple are subjected to carding. Carding produces a thin sheet of uniform thickness that is then condensed ...

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