Word: architecturale
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Though it has come on hard times, the Villa Savoye is a landmark-if not a classic beauty-of architecture, ranked by many architectural historians as the modern house second in importance only to Frank Lloyd Wright's low-roofed, deep-shadowed 1909 Robie House in Chicago.*
CONSTRUCTION BOOM of $630 billion in next decade is seen by ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, building magazine. It predicts $75 billion a year in 1968, 53% over 1958.
A bold proposal for the complete redevelopment of the area along the Charles River between Harvard and M.I.T. prepared by students at the Graduate School of Design was described in the current issue of The Architectural Forum.
To attract the public to the student architectural exhibition, the structure will be lighted at night and the plot will be landscaped this summer.
"Projects can cover any aspect of the urban community, whether historical, literary, educational, governmental, or architectural," he emphasized. The focus of the present Harvard Center for Urban Studies on design and physical planning will be considerably broadened, he stated, pointing out that suggested projects have come from members of the...