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Pitkin expressed optimism that the University "understands the problems and hired an architect that understands the problems" but said it was too early to tell whether the community would approve of the plan...
...February 1997 Harvard held its first large public meeting on the project--a surprising move given its history of keeping plans close to the vest until much further along in the development process, and the limited specifics available at that time. They had no architect, no design drawing and no firm site chosen, but Harvard officials proceeded anyway...
...said. Dr. Mueller has been teaching in Boylston for over thirty years. Faculty members like Mueller, who have spent many years in Boylston, were aware of problems with the old building that probably escaped students' notice. "Not one of windows in the old building opened," she remarked. Although the architect was forbidden to alter Boylston's historic facade, many of the existing windows are now fully functional...
...make showing videos a simple process.Simple, that is, except for the fact that theinner walls of each classroom is made of glass.So, in spite of the high-tech, fully automaticblackout window shades, light from the hallwaycannot be blocked and provides enough glare torender the movie screen nearly unwatchable.Perhaps the architect momentarily forgot that hewas designing an academic building rather than adesign showcase. Also, the video projectors arepermanently fixed in each of the classrooms,prompting some TF's to complain that theeffectively reduced classroom size makes foreignlanguage instruction difficult. Though noteveryone has classes in Boylston, anyone who hastried to enter...
...just possible, however, that this last situation may change. In Barcelona a movement is stirring among the city's Catholic hierarchy to push for the beatification and eventual canonization of Antoni Gaudi I Cornet (1852-1926), designer of the unfinished church of the Sagrada Famolia and the greatest architect that Barcelona, or Spain itself, has ever produced. Back in 1992, the auxiliary bishop of Barcelona, Joan Carrera, called the beatification move "a legitimate and reasonable proposal." In a pastoral letter last Aug. 23, Ricard Maria Cardinal Carles declared his intent to begin the long and labyrinthine process toward beatifying...