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...Getty is not "a building." There are moments, both off site and on, when its collection of six separate units on a ridge linked by plazas and terraces resembles a very honed and buffed Modernist version of an Italian hill town. Architect Meier himself has grown wary of the hill-town analogy. "Think of it," he says, "as a small college campus with different departments, some more visible than others--not a museum but an institution in which art predominates...
Walsh and Meier had their disagreements about its display--Walsh liked sober, richly colored walls as a background for the art and insisted on "period room" effects for the furniture, whereas Meier wanted neither. The period decor, which was handled by the New York City architect-decorator Thierry Despont, is a flop. But Meier served the art very well, with a series of generously proportioned, plain, high-ceilinged and top-lighted galleries that don't clamor for attention and do create a feeling of undistracted serenity. They recall the enfilade effects of older museums, but Meier has cunningly provided...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences hasn't hired an architect for the proposed Knafel Center for Government and International Affairs, but Cambridge residents did not hesitate to voice some initial concerns with the project at a public information meeting held last night...
Reed Hundt had it wired. As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he was a prime architect of deregulation, which was going to bring competition to the phone business the likes of which had never been seen. Trouble is, it hasn't been seen, leaving Hundt fuming about telephone-company attorneys. "Shakespeare had it right," says lawyer Hundt. "First thing, kill the lawyers...
...than a farmer; Rory, a farmer's son, points out that as a lawyer, "you'd be away from your kids a lot." Natalie speaks up for auto mechanics, because "you get to build your own car." Angela wonders, "Do you need to learn another language to be an architect...