Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Globe recently co-sponsored with the Graduate School of Design at Harvard a two day conference "The Professions and the Built Environment." The only panel billed as dealing with the third world (or two thirds of the world) in this international meeting consisted of a keynote speaker from South Africa (white male of course), and three respondents (white male) who admitted never having even been in the third world and knew nothing whatever on the subject. A young professor from a University in Toronto--where he was a guest teacher and returning to his native Kenya challenged this incredible situation...
...rest of the meetings consisted of a re-hash of all the platitudes of the past delivered mainly by the same kind of people (in some instances the same individuals) who have made the Urban Design Conferences of the past such a failure and bore. The new title and graphics did not fool anyone. While the previous Conferences were free, now the Dean at the Graduate School of Design was charging $100 per person--the only thing that...
...withdraw if he thought a building was detrimental to the urban environment." "Mr. Pei takes great pains going into the neighborhood and interviewing people being dislocated and anybody who is touched financially," Landreth said. "All the data is then poured into a big central vat, before we consider the design we work...
...ethics so far will no doubt be the Kennedy Library. The Library plans, unveiled in May 1973, have engendered more protest than any of Pei's projects in Boston to date. The prevailing criticism coming from both the community and architectural leaders ranges from the argument that the modern design would not fit into its surroundings, to the contention that the community could not handle the immense parking problems that the Library would cause in the area. The plan has already gone through many changes to meet with community zoning problems. "Mr. Pei wants it within the texture...
...pleasantly disorientating. It is a serious social speculation, but never a somber one. Even if Director-Writer Wertmuller had wanted to take that tone, the fact that a great deal of the action occurs inside what is euphemistically termed a "house of tolerance" would have made any such design unworkable. Director Wertmuller is as much concerned with evoking pleasure as deprivation; her movie has abundant vitality, which sends it skimming successfully over its thinner portions...