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...dean, Hudnut brought to the Harvard Faculty Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both important members of Germany's Bauhaus Institute. Hudnut worked with these men to gain acceptance for Bauhaus techniques in America...
...that produced (out of 574 entries) a design by Sculptor Norman Hoberman for eight soaring concrete and marble tablets covered with Roosevelt quota tions. "Instant Stonehenge," hooted the critics, and the late President's family turned it down cold. Last week a second effort, by famed Architect Marcel Breuer, was brusquely and unanimous ly rejected - this time by the Washington Fine Arts Commission. Breuer's design envisaged free-standing walls radiating from a central court yard (TIME, Dec. 30). "Pure geometry," he called it, and won approval from the family and the Roosevelt Memorial Commission...
...year, showgoers spotted a new trend: a sweeping return to the 1930s, with its love of overstuffed furniture (one possible source of inspiration: late night replays on TV of the '30s movies) and the bright chrome chairs, tables and settees initiated by such Bauhaus architect-designers as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman...
Last week Breuer showed off a model of the memorial, to be built in the capital's West Potomac Park midway between Jefferson's and Lincoln's. But unlike those neoclassical memorials, Breuer's design calls for seven free standing walls, massive granite triangles each 60 ft. high at the apex, radiating from a central stone courtyard. Narrow pools of water run along the base of each wall; small contrariwise triangles beside the pools conceal spotlights. From the air, the monolithic walls appear to be the blades of some gigantic turbine. From the surrounding park land...
...This is pure geometry," Breuer said, but he also saw some symbolism in the great stone darts, whose heights, he said, could stand for Roosevelt's concepts: "Their contours descend to meet the earth, much as the President's concepts reached out to the people for understanding, acceptance, and to become an integral part of the nation's thinking." But Breuer also sees the memorial, whose design F.D.R. Jr. finds "brilliant," as "very much a part of the land itself - a place in which to relax, to stroll, to sit around, to contemplate." It will cost from...