Word: architecturale
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BUILDING BY THE BOOK. When Bernard Tschumi, a mahatma of architectural theory, does build something, naturally a book follows. Tschumi Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between, although risibly titled, is an engaging study of the conversion of an old leisure center in France into a high-tech film-and-performance complex. Tschumi...
Originally the brainchild of Thomas Krens, then head of the nearby Williams College Museum of Art and currently the expansion-minded director of the Guggenheim, Mass MoCA was supposed to be a big splashy gallery, similar in concept to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The same architect, Frank Gehry, and other...
1970--New Currier House is considered architectural cutting edge
The library was designed by the Boston architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, designers of University buildings including Sever Hall, Memorial Church, the Faculty Club, all the Houses built prior to 1949, many of the Yard dorms, Langdell Law Library and the Biological Laboratories.
"It was thought to be a piece of architectural genius to fit as many floors and as many functions into the small amount of space that the University was willing to grant," says Heather E. Cole, current librarian of the Hilles and Lamont libraries.