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...cash and endless Balkan bickering. This is disturbing because the accords cover elections, refugee resettlement and reconstruction--all of which are crucial to giving Bosnia a stable peace. "The civilian part of Dayton is the test of our success or failure, not the military part," said Richard Holbrooke, chief architect of last November's agreement. "For Dayton to be termed a success, rather than a high-water mark of good intentions, the civilian implementation must succeed." Without that, U.S. soldiers--the one who died last week, and those who may die in the weeks to come--will have given their...
Loker Commons was not designed for actual Harvard students but for imaginary twentysomethings, conjured in the minds of fiftysomething university administrators. "We ought to add something bright and digital," one can almost hear the anonymous Harvard technocrat announcing, with considerable pride, to a hip Cambridge architect. "Kids these days are so technologically oriented...
...venerable American Center in Paris is closing down. Just 19 months ago, the center unveiled a dazzling new $41 million building designed by West Coast architect Frank Gehry, but construction costs ate up the center's entire endowment, leaving nothing for running the literature, language and dance classes that had made the center the pre-eminent showplace for American artistry in Europe...
Robert Venturi, the architect for Memorial Hall renovations, and the great theorist of American Architecture in the second half of this century (Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Los Vegas), has had a long-term fascination with American popular culture and with contained excess. He's looking, I suppose, for that distinctive element in American vulgarity that isn't vulgar-and hopes, I think, to create in Loker Commons an architecture that avoids either kitsch or Harvard-Square-trendy good taste. The space has an almost stolid we've-been-here-forever loft-like feel to it, with...
...When we hired an architect and looked at how the program would actually work, the idea of using the central hall as a graduate reading room soon became a problem," Parsons said...