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...Make no little plans," architect and city planner Daniel H. Burnham wrote at the century's turn, "they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized." When Burnham's plan for the glorious beaux- arts Union Station was realized in Washington 81 years ago, it was one of the world's biggest rail terminals but otherwise very much of its time. Before World War I, budgets for civic building were generous, beaux-arts neoclassicism was almost obligatory, and the U.S. had more than 80,000 busy train stations...
...kiosk's architect, Robert Venturi, who heads the presitigious Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, said he was disappointed by unfavorable student reaction to the kiosk. The structure "should not be criticized the way it is," he said. "The students should note that architecture as opposed to building inevitably costs more. We have been working very hard and very furiously to give Princeton a useful and decent booth," he said...
...young architect starting out, says Kira, "being given bathrooms is like being given latrine duty in the Army." He surveys the resulting mistakes in a men's room at National: no shelves for hand luggage above the backs of the toilets -- ideal for thieves who can grab a bag from under the stall door when you're least able to fight back; a urinal that projects into the narrow aisle, so everybody has to sidle past; a sink counter that is too spacious -- good at home, but here just someplace to slop up as you go drip-dropping in search...
Thomas Jefferson had the right formula for governance when he wrote that "reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." Apparently, the words of the architect of democracy have little connection with Harvard; how can the Board fairly review the administration's decisions if it is chosen by that administration...
...chief architect, economist William C. Hsiao of the Harvard School of Public Health, said the plan is intended to correct "distorted and inequitable" fees that pay doctors too little for examining patients and too much for specific procedures and operations...