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...First Prize in the architectural competition fared no better. It was nothing short of scandalous to award the prize to Eero Saarinen's Chapel at M.I.T. for "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose." Although the interior has many praiseworthy features, the exterior is one of the chief eyesores of Cambridge--an ugly brick storage tank with foully proportioned arches set into it (see cut). Compare with it, for example, the Mexico City church erected several years earlier and shown in the other cut. The basic idea (which Saarinen thought original with...
...Finnish-born Eero Saarinen, 45, the Grand Architectural Award, at the Boston Arts Festival, for his design of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapel (TIME, June 29, 1953, et seq.), as "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose . . . sensitivity to the use of materials and detail follow-through...
...prizes given to U.S. architects for buildings of the year are the annual awards of the 11,000-member American Institute of Architects. To pick this year's winners, a jury of five topflight architects, including Eero Saarinen (TIME, March 19) and Pietro Belluschi, dean of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture, thumbed through more than 200 sets of plans and photographs before they made their choice. The runaway winners, announced in Washington this week: the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri...
...around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably by 1958, and 2) entrust the design to one of the boldest U.S. modern architects, Finnish-born Eero Saarinen...
Most recent example is Architect Eero Saarinen's new cylindrical chapel for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953), built of rough-textured brick and separated from the campus by a narrow moat. Meant to harmonize with the nearby brick dormitories, the nondenominational chapel presents a severe mask on its exterior; within, it is a citadel for repose and worship...