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Architect Max Cetto drew parallels between Aztec and modern Mexican building styles last night, in an attempt to demonstrate the continuities in his country's architectural history. His speech was sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.
Cetto criticized Mexico's University City as a "great wasted architectural opportunity." Open spaces were "inhuman" in extent, he said, and decoration was often carried to excessive lengths. He also found fault with the tendency of modern architects to overemphasize sculpture at the expense of structure. Many buildings constructed along...
Although most of the Masters favor the construction of a tenth House, they hold varying views of the ideal form for it. Pointing to the general need for further deconversion, several consider an additional House not merely desirable but necessary. They differ, however, as to size and most suitable architectural...
Three noted architectural innovators will deliver the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.
Southern Baptists responded with renewed evangelical fervor. With Scriptures in their saddlebags, they followed the frontiersmen West, baptized in rivers, creeks and cow ponds, worshiped in barns and shacks, staged hell-raising, Bible-banging revivals in tents and private homes. Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural...