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...Cambridge architect R. Phillip Dowds, another Defense Fund member who sits on the advisory committee, said that the new plans have not allayed his fears about the hotel's effect on the neighborhood. Even at half-size, he said, a hotel will exacerbate traffic and parking problems in the Square and contribute to an overly "commercial" atmosphere...
Cambridge architect Graham Gund originally planned a large hotel designed to fit in with the architecture of nearby Harvard buildings--among them Eliot House and Lehman Hall. As a finishing touch, one rendition of the building was topped with a Georgian cupola similar to the one which once adorned the Gulf station...
...project architect Richard L. Bechtel said the new plans would likely downplay the Georgian style...
...neither prove God nor disprove him, whether he be Einstein's Old One, the architect of the cosmos, or Michelangelo's stern anthropomorphic censor of our morals. Many of us, including clerics of all faiths, think it unlikely that an all-wise creator would choose for himself the male form of a primate so close genetically to a chimpanzee that some taxonomists would include the pair in the same genus...
Strasser now dabbles in industrial design and ultimately, he says, he "will ! probably turn into an architect." His extraordinary aesthetic and worldly success is, of course, a function of his talent and intelligence. But it is also, he believes, a product of Texas laissez-faire can-doism. "I'm clearly a Texan," he says. "I hate committees, I love the Texas freedom of spirit -- the renegade, what-the-hell, we're-gonna-do-it-our-way attitude." Strasser admits, however, that it was only in the past year, when a wider world recognized his elegant embodiment of that spirit, that...