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...exhibition space, bigger than either the Guggenheim (38,000 sq. ft.) or the Whitney (23,000 sq. ft.). It will be a long time before the Met's contemporary wing starts bursting at the seams like its older cousins. Its | architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, are masters of institutional tone, with a steely disdain for the outre and the overdeclarative; nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art, as one can see in their handling of such previous Met expansions as the American Wing and the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The detailing is exact...
...wing -- from its roomful of Paul Klees (a gift from that doyen of European art dealers, Heinz Berggruen) to its enormous, rambling and rhapsodical environment by Robert Rauschenberg, 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece -- sits in the right place and space. This is no small architectural achievement. Roche Dinkeloo's plan avoids the inflexible, linear character of many museum layouts, seen at its worst at the Guggenheim, which propels the visitor on a one-way trip down the tunnel of art history; instead, the Met wing invites one to reflect, pause, circle, go back, compare...
...corporate office of General Foods in Westchester County, N.Y., makes its concession to history not by adapting ornamental forms but by shaping white aluminum and glass into a graceful, lyrical palace reminiscent of the work of the great 16th century architect Palladio. Designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates, it has genuine richness and grandeur...
...Saarinen suddenly died just as his growing firm was moving into a Teutonic mansion in Hamden, Conn. Roche and Dinkeloo took over the business and kept the Saarinen promise. "What Saarinen taught us," says Roche, who became an American citizen in 1964, "is not to find a new mold or formula for producing architecture like so many automobiles, but to design each building with a fresh enthusiasm for meeting its specific requirements...
While few critics dispute Roche Dinkeloo's technical ingenuity and aesthetic daring, some charge the firm with a bent for a dehumanizing bigness. Some of its glassy towers-the Worcester (Mass.) County National Bank, for instance-loom large indeed. But while many big new buildings, in the name of progress, merely take, Roche's buildings give-pleasant plazas or little parks and improved working conditions. Union Carbide's complex is only four stories high. Conoco, near Houston, consists of three-story buildings clustered around an artificial lake. General Foods, in Rye, N.Y., in harmony with surrounding residential...