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...Rohe, 73, whose skin-and-bones style (Manhattan's Seagram building) has spread the vogue for glass-curtain walls across the U.S., and France's prickly, Swiss-born Le Corbusier, 72, whose dramatic structures (Ronchamp Chapel) qualify as large-scale sculptures in concrete. Last week "Corbu," who has long been rankled by the fact that U.S. clients have fought shy of his turbulent genius, landed his first U.S. commission-a $1,500,000 Visual Arts Center for Harvard University...
...week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged to find another site. Le Corbusier himself? He appeared a trifle wearied by it all. Said Corbu: "Houses can die as well as men, but if there's a way of saving them, so much the better...
...behind the glowing words of Jawaharlal Nehru all is not well in Chandigarh. Some of the clients are in strong disagreement with the architect-a man described by Nehru as "one of the world's great men"-France's dogmatic, bespectacled Le Corbusier, 70. The first of "Corbu's" Chandigarh buildings-the massive, sculptural High Court-has won ringing praise from architects and critics. But the men who use it most, the High Court judges, have handed down some sharp dissents...
...judges have openly defied Corbu's decree that all vehicular traffic approach the building on a sunken drive. Instead, they drive up on the paths the architect laid out for pedestrians, and park their cars under the great arches that rise to the building's parasol roof. Le Corbusier indignantly photographed the grease spots left by the cars beneath his splendid arches, and snapped: "What sort of judges are these who do not obey the traffic laws?" Five of the eight judges decided that they did not like the abstract cubist tapestries Le Corbusier designed for their courtrooms...
...effort to win over Europe's most famed architect, Berlin city officials agreed to waive low unit costs, promised Le Corbusier a top commission, drew the line only when plans for his 300-apartment building showed ceilings only 7 ft. 5 in. high. "Le Corbu" argued such low ceilings were "adequate for Americans and London bobbies, so why not for Berliners," threatened to withdraw. In one week 4,700 Berliners wrote to Berlin's Tagesspiegel (2,000 pro v. 2,700 con) before Le Corbu agreed to raise living-room ceilings to 8 ft. 2 in., but testily...