Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Graduate School of Design has joined the Law, Medical, and Business Schools as the country's finest. At least that is the opinion of the editors of "Time" magazine who claimed in the current issue that Harvard now has the "nation's number one architectural school."
Memorial Hall, that great, disputed, stranded galleon of the Harvard state celebrates its 75th birthday this year. Once described as "the most frightening building in greater Boston," praised as a "great, bristling brick Valhalla," it has served generations of Harvard men in its multiplicity of function regardless of architectural merit...
Debate over the architectural value of the hall has resulted in the consumption of many inkwells and in a multitude of witticisms. The Lampoon remarked.
Henry David Thoreau's Yankee mind ranged from poetry to lead pencils (he invented a better one). The editors of Britain's highbrow Architectural Review have now found a fresh distinction for him: give or take a few details, Thoreau did a startlingly good job of anticipating the...
But perhaps all this was not as modern as the Architectural Review thought. To U.S. Thoreau fans, it all sounded a good deal like the cabin on Walden Pond, enlarged in furniture and company.