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LACKING an elemental confidence in their nation's flimsy architectural foundations, Americans continue to construct buildings which will conform to their need for a tradition -buildings which, however, bear no relation to the functional sensibility required today. These buildings, consequently, fail to grab the imagination or heart of contemporary America; they remain unintegrated and distant from the world they seek to underpin...
...story apartment buildings near Fresh Pond which Wasserman built in 1969 were described by one tenant as "sloppily built. It cost him more to repair the mistakes than it would have cost if he hadn't cut corners." The City Council vetoed plans to construct a third such building in the area...
...architect Ribart de Cham-oust proposed the construction of a colossal, 300-ft.-high elephant whose trunk would send forth an immense jet of water to irrigate surrounding gardens. The elephant would contain a restaurant and ballroom and be surmounted by a gigantic statue of King Louis XV. The proposal was rejected, as were others to construct a white marble obelisk or an enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign...
Klee may have been the last painter who felt that he could construct a universe-not just some parts of it-in his own head, in complete microscopic detail. It was not life at large, but a doll's theater of life, that played out its tiny and absorbing dramas within the frames of his paintings. He may not have been a major artist. But he was a stunningly complete...
...pave the Yard and turn it into a parking lot produced THIS"-and he smiled proudly as he pointed to one of M. I. T.'s three mammoth parking lots. He reminded me that M. I. T. has built three parking lots in the time it took Harvard to construct...