Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"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...
Forty ministers and laymen assembled at the Presbyterians' Gilmor-Sloane House in Stony Point, N.Y. for a week-long "Institute on Overseas Churchmanship," under sponsorship of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Participants -mostly Presbyterians, with a sprinkling of Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutherans and Episcopalians-included an architectural engineer...
It was not without murmered whimperings that the plans for Quincy and the Leverett House extension were greeted. Quincy rises like an aircraft carrier in dry dock; and the Leverett towers will reflect a Miami-Beach-hotel flamboyance complemented by a library which combines the best architectural features of a...
What might be in order is a House which asserts Harvard's debt to the great traditions of European building--architectural styles which must always be viewed in context of a general Zeitgeistlicheweltanschauung. One thinks immediately of the ultimate synthesis, a Greek temple with flying buttress. Such a structure would...
Leverett, of course, has long faced an unfortunate lack of popularity partially due to architectural features: it lacks a splendid tower and its dining room is a huge reverberating cavern. By now, Leverett's problem has received due recognition from the Administration, which has provided grants to remodel the dining...