Word: cottas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account of the voyage was translated into more than 60 languages, sold more than 20 million cop ies. In 1955 he made an expedition to Easter Island, 2,350 miles west of Chile, and another bestseller, Aku-Aku, resulted. But then he bought a 13th century terra cotta chateau above the Ital ian Riviera and settled down to a comfortable life of sun-kissed scholarship. Had Thor Heyerdahl become adventurer emeritus? Not quite...
...problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the low-rise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
...distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the lowrise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...