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This is the age of the do-it-yourself man. Nearly everyone has at some time felt the urge to build or create something, whether it be a tall building laid brick by brick until it towers into the sky or just a rhetorical fantasy towering word by word into the infinite majesty of the columns of a daily newspaper. Both the brick structure and the word structure are equally important. If we had no building there would be no place to lay out typewriter, and if we had no typewriter there would be no need for the office building...
...without manual manipulation. We have arrived! We are now Editors! But there are many different kinds of editors. Some are poor editors; some are good editors; some are very good editors; and some have a talent for the business. But even the talented came up the hard way--word-brick by word-brick--until they were eventually able to combine their God-given talent with plain hard work to reach a most enviable position. This all sounds like rough, rugged ritual--and it is just that...
...Crimson, our historians tell us, was located in those days "in a front room one flight up in an old brick building on Massachusetts Avenue between Holyoke and Linden Streets, reached by an open wooden staircase at the back of the building...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of 43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the little red-brick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped would be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
...immense consequences for his later work. For even the most complex of his buildings, the intricate massing of volume and void at Dacca or the planning of the Salk Institute, are also a demonstration of the bare rudiments of architecture. "I learned about order, order itself. That the brick wanted to be brick and nothing else, the stone stone, the concrete concrete. I just learned it so thoroughly, the orders and the elements. And from there I learned that a stair isn't just something you get out of a catalogue but a very important event in a building...