Word: cubular
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...Safe, Cubular Things. Manhattan-born Lundy won his rebel's spurs honorably. An automatic-rifleman with Patton's Third Army, he was one of 16 out of a battalion of 360 to survive, ended up for eight months in an Army hospital with his left arm nearly shot off by a German tank. At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, after the war, studying with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Lundy began as the wildman of the class: "Everything came out that had been bottled up during the war," he explains. "I gave it the works...
...time he settled down to turning out the "pristine, safe, lovely cubular things" that won him a $3,000 Rotch Traveling Fellowship and an 18-month tour of Europe. But a close look at aging modern landmarks abroad made him tear up his schedule. He began to pay more attention to the great architectural monuments of the past, from the cathedrals of France to the temples at Luxor...
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