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A Harvard faculty member's architectural firm--which designed the newly opened Cambridge Center Marriott hotel in Kendall Square--will go before a state review board early next month to face charges that the building does not conform to state handicapped access laws.
His buildings are easier to dislike than those of any other important American architect. They are often dissonant and usually constructed of homely materials -- unpainted metal and plywood, asphalt shingles, stucco, rough concrete. They typify no up-and-coming architectural trend. In the postmodernist era, when much fashionable architecture has...
The new storefront was designed by the Sert-Jackson architectural firm, which also designed Holyoke Center. The new addition, Kane said, should "fit in with Holyoke Center and keep the integrity of the building while adding something new."
Strictly speaking, this circle should be named Canaday Hell, after the den of architectural perversity masquerading as a freshman dorm. It's a little known fact that the building of both Canaday and Mather House was secretly funded by Yale.
So when Gropius was appointed as head of the architectural program, the International style received in one stroke the legitimacy it had previously lacked in the United States. True, during this time it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another refugee from the Nazis and a former student of Gropius...