Word: architecturale
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Sir: It is taking things a bit far to offer a Levitt house [Dec. 10] as a laudable U.S. export. As a sample of informed architectural opinion in France, where Levitt houses are now being built, I quote the words of L' Architecture D'Aujourd'hui: "Here...
The raised campus not only accentuates the view of a great city: it also impressively dramatizes the immense stretch of the Midwestern prairies by capitalizing on Frank Lloyd Wright's perception that the best architectural way to capture their spirit would be in strong horizontals. The space beneath the...
James S. Ackerman, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, has attacked the design of the School of Education's new Larsen Hall and has suggested establishing an ad hoc committee of three specialists from other universities to advise the President and deans on architectural appointments.
Last summer, after surveying the crumbling west side, engineers urged that it, too, be rebuilt immediately. Architect Stewart, 75, a onetime Congressman and engineer who has neither an architectural degree nor a license, proposed that the whole length of the west wall be encased in marble, extended as much as...
Wolf Von Eckardt, architectural critic for the Washington Post, complained that the extension would completely obliterate the soaring vision of the great dome, leave it sitting on a puffed-out base like a "wedding cake on a big buffet table." Von Eckardt noted that damaged walls have been repaired -without...