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...Eck calls the DeWolfe design an example of "dry traditionalism. This one doesn't make enough of a reference to the contemporary edge that you would expect in the 1990s...
...Eck disagrees. "You have a context and either you're working with the context or not," he says. "It's pretty hard to be a background piece in that position...
...Eck, on the other hand, believes that Werner Otto Hall goes too far in distancing itself from its neighboring buildings, something which he terms "a serious problem on this end of Harvard's campus...
...clearly a very well-crafted building," Eck says, "but the context is almost totally disregarded...
...What's interesting to me is that they're all three being built at the same time, three different interpretations of traditionalism," Eck says. "Maybe it represents the decentralization of the University...