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The State Department contends that the high-rise skyscraper, designed by a Washington architectural firm, Metcalf & Eddy, would serve as a more secure garrison in case of attack than the suggested alternative of clustered bungalows. Huffed one official at State, defending the project: "No one in Cairo has raised a...
In most ways, Barragán is a maverick in the architectural establishment. He has frequently deplored what he calls "architects' architecture" and admits no debt to the International Style of the Bauhaus. He uses the plainest of materials ? adobe, raw beams, cobbles ? to create astringently el egant effects...
Long's indoor works are a strange contradiction in terms. The pieces are similar to those done outdoors--circles and lines in stone and wood. While the coarse raw materials seem out of place on smooth, polished gallery floors, the simple geometric forms work well in architectural frameworks. In Long...
The grant will fund an ongoing architectural studio exploring the adaptation of solar energy to housing developments on three levels--a single building, a small neighborhood and an entire community. The studio, led by Carl Steinitz, professor of Landscape Architecture, and Adele Santos, professor of Architecture, consists of 30 students...
GSDers felt their architectural roots might shrivel and die in the well-carpeted K-School turf, while the hosts-to-be trembled at the thought of accommodating so many new lodgers. Much of this initial wariness disappeared after hours of conferences and committee meetings, but a good deal of caution...