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Blasted Out. The chorused fanfare of a horn group (ranging from six to eleven members) is deafening, as the audience at Laarne discovered. The day's festivities began with a Hunter's Mass at the Laarne Chapel, at which pink-coated, blackbooted horn players substituted for the organ and choir at the service, and all but blasted the congregation from their seats. On the lawn afterwards, the groups lined up in traditional V-formations, took turns tooting their bulge-cheeked way through an intricate variety of fanfares. It was a glorious afternoon for the horn players...
...jury, led by ex-Dean Joseph Hudnut of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, compounded their insult by rating M.I.T.'s impressively daring Kresge Auditorium, adjacent to the Chapel and also by Saarinen, at the bottom of the list and emphasizing in their decision that "we wish it understood ... that the award is for the chapel building alone." They should be downright ashamed of themselves...
...highly competitive profession, where awards mean prestige, Eero Saarinen & Associates is a consistent winner. This spring the firm added another rich harvest of first-place laurels, including 1) the Grand Architectural Award from the Boston Arts Festival, for Saarinen's Massachusetts Institute of Technology cylindrical brick chapel (selected earlier this year by the National Council of Churches as one of the best churches built in the last 25 years); 2) first place in the top-drawer competition for the new U.S. London embassy (TIME, March...
...Rejecting the cult of the cube as the answer to every problem, he made his M.I.T. auditorium a billowing, white shell of concrete, resting on three points, in which the acoustic elements could be placed. His questioning ("Need a church be rectangular?") produced M.I.T.'s cylindrical brick hatbox chapel, lighted from a single honeycomb skylight above and light bounced up from the narrow, containing moat through low arches to give the interior a grotto-like mystery and calm...
...designing Concordia Senior College at Fort Wayne, Ind., Saarinen remembered the snug appearance of Danish villages clustered around their church, kicked the modern cliche of the flat roof skyhigh, and designed the chapel and buildings with pointed roofs. Says he: "There is a whole question of how to relate buildings to earth and sky. Is the sharp horizontal really the best answer? We must have an emotional reason as well as a logical end for everything we do." Saarinen admits his decision spread dissension even within his office, but he let the peaked roofs stand. "The smorgasbord boys love...