Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Block Island plans were conceived as a practice project for the men in architectural planning and landscaping at the school. The Island has been on the decline for the past few decades as a resort, yet it has the potentiality to be one of the foremost summer havens in...
Then, certainly, is Sever Hall, the most modern building of its time when completed, out of place between Widener and Appleton. Even Memorial Hall, an architectural throwback, is now accepted as part of the University scene, which would seem bare without it. New ideas suffer the risk of being hit...
Ryuichi Hamaguchi, professor of basic design and the history of architecture at Tokyo University, has been travelling in this country for some months. According to Filipowski, he is interested in bringing American architectural methods back to Japan.
Hamaguchi, who also is an editor of Kokusai-Kentiku, a monthly architectural magazine, took several pictures of work done in the course. He intends to print them along with a story on Design 1 when he returns to Japan.
"We are planning for a group of students to see President Conant shortly to state their feelings on the importance of Design 1 to our architectural education," he concluded.