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About 18 elms have been removed from the Yard in the past two years, Diane K. McGuire, landscape architect for Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday. The treatment of less diseased and some specimens started last year. The results of the treatment are not yet known...
...habit of steady work, moving from ceramics to painting, from sculpture to lithography, as one might turn from picking the lettuces to watering the celery. Today, in his 82nd year, he continues to do so, ensconced in the enormous white studio his friend and fellow Catalan, the architect José Luis Sert, built for him on the island of Mallorca in 1956. Mird lives near by, among his peas, vines and carobs, in a house cluttered by found objects and rustic earthenware. He has been married to the same wife, Pilar Juncosa, since 1929; and in his manner of life...
...pictures begins in the formalized Romanesque murals he saw as a child in the museums and churches round Barcelona. His drawing, too, is in Catalan. It stems from art nouveau, the civic style of turn-of-the-century Barcelona, whose façades and courtyards Architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and his disciples encrusted with an exuberant riot of decorative line. In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage...
...Architect I.M. Pei set to work scaling down the project and last week released a new design which eliminated an 85-foot-high glass pyramid and two 350-seat auditoriums. Pei also redesigned the complex in brick, to blend in with the colonial motifs of the Harvard Houses which are across from the site...
...reducing the scale of the library and museum to cut total floor space by one-third, the Kennedy Library Corp. has preserved the museum at the expense of the library. Architect I.M. Pei provided enough space for only 6 million of the 22 million documents which form the Kennedy collection, but found room for a vast, open reception area to be filled with an awe-inspiring bust and inscription set against a view of the Charles River...