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Currently 66 projects of well-known twentieth century architect Walter Gropius are on exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, representing several phases of his work. The museum holds extensive collections of Central and Northern European paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. The Busch-Reisinger, along with the Fogg and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, makes up the Harvard University Art Museums...
Former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley, who knows so much about the museum that he's giving the opening remarks this Friday, says he's "very impressed with. [Sackler Museum architect James] Stirling's ability to make space out of small, awkward spaces...
...University of Virginia, said it confidently: "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." Heirs to the Palladian vision are more subdued. The modern couple who decide to build a house had better check their marital foundations first. For his part, the architect must patiently extract straight lines from his clients' tangled desires. He must also establish a working truce with his natural enemy, the builder. Then there is the money, probably the largest amount most people will ever spend in any one place. If it is any comfort, Jefferson was always over...
...would be an update of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. But as he demonstrated in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), his Pulitzer-prizewinni ng book on the computer industry, the author is a virtuoso of lucid and compelling narrative. Here he gives equal time to client, architect and builders. The result is a three- dimensional view of an activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale ('65); law degree from Harvard...
DIED. Herbert Bayer, 85, Austrian-born designer, painter, architect, photographer and one of the last surviving master teachers of the Bauhaus school, which believed that modern art and architecture should respond to the industrial world; in Montecito, Calif. Bayer was celebrated for his contributions to the Container Corp. of America's "Great Ideas of Western Man" campaign in 1950; during the 1940s he played an important role in the renovation plan for Aspen, Colo...