Word: architects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delbruck, professor of Biology at California Institute of Technology who is known for his pioneering work in molecular biology and genetics, received the degree of Doctor of Science. Kenzo Tange, a Japanese architect, was named Doctor of Arts...
...Hulme said it, and the sentiment points toward an important notion about design. The buildings around us are the significant objects in our landscape, and if a place is depressing-or dazzling, or manicured, or red-it can call up a corresponding emotional reply in us. An architect designs a building, it is constructed, and suddenly a new fact has insinuated itself into our consciousnesses. Fow other arts can claim such immediacy of impact, or assault...
Mather House is the future. Stone cold, fluorescent, angular, it juts into our eyes like a stiletto from the next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
Jean Paul Carlhain, a member of the firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott (which has designed, among other buildings, Dunster, Leverett, and Quincy Houses), is the architect of Mather House. I asked him if the angle of the Mather House tower was the one he had chosen-if, in fact, he was aware that the only windows which looked out on Harvard and the Charles were in the bathrooms. "Oh, yes," he said, "I don't believe in the Atlantic City 'I-can-see-the-ocean!' school of windows." He said he felt that the view of Peabody Terrace...
Born. To Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, 45, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, and William Wesley Peters, 58, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's longtime assistant and now vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: a daughter; in San Rafael, Calif. Name: Olga. "This pretty girl makes another strong link between this country and myself," said Mrs. Peters, whose two grown children by previous marriages still live in the Soviet Union...