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...distinguish between the government of Chile and government-owned corporations may impress the legal mind, but it strikes most of us as a distinction without a difference. The fact, which cannot be evaded by childish sophistries, is that Harberger directly and through his students and disciples is a principal architect of Chile's oppressive economic program. In the New York Times of February 7, he says that he is only a technician. "People who criticize this attitude for an alleged neglect of non-economic consideration," he says, "usually have in mind such things as morality, democracy and justice." He makes...
...million complex is an unusually solid marriage between architect and artist. Theater Consultant Gordon Davidson, director of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, worked on details for six years with Architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo. The result of all that planning, says Artistic Director Edward Payson Call, can only be compared to a wonderful playpen for directors, who can use dramatic concepts impossible in many other places...
...Bonfils design is that it bears no relationship at all to its two-year-old neighbor, the brick-walled Boettcher Concert Hall, designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates for the Denver Symphony. Both buildings are admirable but in disquietingly different ways. It is unfortunate that the same architect was not assigned to both. The disunity may be less noticeable, however, when the 76-ft.-high glass Galleria, which now leads to both entrances, is extended to cover the entire plaza. Shops and restaurants will soon be opened along the sides of the 60-ft.-wide Galleria, and eventually the city...
...completely possible to phase out the use of fossil fuels and atomic energy," renowned architect R. Buckminster Fuller said yesterday to the 600 people gathered at the Cambridge Forum...
...Engineer-Architect Fred Dubin, who considers conservation "a national security issue," is currently engaged in 75 energy-conserving projects involving new and existing buildings. He is developing an integrated energy system for large buildings that uses wind and photovoltaic cells for generating electricity, then recaptures waste heat from the cells for heating water. The imaginative Dubin has also conceived a vast underground heating and cooling system for Washington's Market Square Development complex...