Master Builder (other)
A master builder or master mason was the central figure leading construction projects in pre-modern times, thus, a precursor to the modern architect and engineer. Master Builder(s) may also refer to: * ''The Master Builder'', an 1892 play by Henrik Ibsen * ''A Master Builder'', a 2013 film directed by Jonathan Demme * "Master Builder", a song on Gong's 1974 album ''You'' * Master Builders, characters who build without instructions in ''The Lego Movie'' * Robert Moses Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid 20th century. Despite never being elected to any office, Moses is regarded ...

Master Builder
A master builder or master mason is a central figure leading construction projects in pre-modern times (a precursor to the modern architect and engineer). Historically, the term has generally referred to "the head of a construction project in the Middle Ages or Renaissance period",Olga Popovic Larsen, Andy Tyas, Conceptual Structural Design: Bridging the Gap Between Architects and Engineers' (2003), p. 29-30. with an 1887 source describing the status as follows: The term has also been applied to more broadly include "designers and builders of large-scale construction work who learned their trade in a more formal way than the builders of primitive forms in pre-technological societies... from the times of the Egyptians and Sumerians until (and in some cases beyond) the Industrial Revolution". The phrase has been in use since at least as early as 1610, when William Camden William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and ...
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The Master Builder
''The Master Builder'' ( no, Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's more significant and revealing works. Performance The play was published by Gyldendal AS in Copenhagen in 1892 and its first performance was on 19 January 1893 at the Lessing Theatre in Berlin, with Emanuel Reicher as Solness. It opened at the Trafalgar Theatre in London the following month, with Herbert H. Waring in the name part and Elizabeth Robins as Hilda. The English translation was by the theatre critic William Archer and poet Edmund Gosse. Productions in Oslo and Copenhagen were coordinated to open on 8 March 1893. In the following year, the work was staged by Théâtre de l'Œuvre, the international company based in Paris. The first U.S. performance was at the Carnegie Lyceum in New York on 16 January 1900, with William Pascoe and Florence Kahn. Characters * Halvard Solness, master builder * Alin ...
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A Master Builder
''A Master Builder'' is a 2013 film directed by Jonathan Demme, based on Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play ''The Master Builder''. The film was released in the United States in June 2014 and stars Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Lisa Joyce and Andre Gregory. The film is a production of the Ibsen play dealing with the relationship between an aging architect and a younger woman. The play originally premiered in 1893. Plot Halvard Solness (Shawn) is an aging architect of a small town in Norway, who has managed to attain some distinction and local reputation; he has long been married to Aline (Hagerty). One day while his friend Doctor Herdal (Pine) is visiting, Solness has another caller: 22-year-old out-of-towner Hilde Wangel (Joyce), whom the Doctor promptly recognizes from a recent trip. Soon after the Doctor leaves and Solness is alone with Hilde, she reminds him that they are not strangers; they previously met in her home 10 years ago when she was 12. When Solness does not respond to her ...
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You (Gong Album)
''You'' is the fifth studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, released by Virgin Records in October 1974. It is the last album by Daevid Allen's iteration of the group until 1992's ''Shapeshifter''. Recorded at Virgin's Manor Studios in Oxfordshire, England, side 1 was mixed at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, London, while side 2 was mixed at The Manor. It was produced by Simon Heyworth and Gong "under the universal influence of C.O.I.T., the Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet", and also engineered by Heyworth. ''You'' is the third of the "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy of albums, following '' Flying Teapot'' and '' Angel's Egg''. The trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology. The structure of the album mixes short narrative pieces with long, jazzy instrumentals (such as "Master Builder", "A Sprinkling of Clouds" and "Isle of Everywhere"), building to a climax/conclusion with "You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever". Legacy ''Rolling Stone'' named ''You'' one of its "50 Gre ...
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List Of The Lego Movie Characters
This is a list of characters from ''The Lego Movie'' franchise produced by Warner Animation Group and The Lego Group, which consists of the animated films (and LEGO sets from that film), 4D film and TV series: ''The Lego Movie'' (2014), '' The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure'' (2016), and '' The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' (2019) as well as its spin-offs ''The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017), ''The Lego Ninjago Movie'' (2017), and ''Unikitty!'' (2017–2020), and the video games. Introduced in ''The Lego Movie'' and ''The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' Emmet Brickowski Emmet Brickowski (voiced by Chris Pratt in ''The Lego Movie'', ''The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' and ''Lego Dimensions'', A. J. Locascio in ''The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure'', ''The Lego Movie 2 Videogame'' and some promos, Keith Ferguson in ''The Lego Movie Videogame'') is the main protagonist of ''The Lego Movie''. He is a construction worker chosen by the prophecy to find the Piece of Resist ...
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