Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RECENT visitor to Harvard observed that the new Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts "looked out of place." Uncomfortably squeezed between the stately Fogg Museum and the Faculty Club, the Le Corbusier building does seem to be fighting for room and a place in the University...
There is no excuse for the archaic lighting in such chambers as Emerson D and the Geological Lecture Room, the lack of writing boards in the Fogg lecture room, and the use of rooms bombarded with the sounds of a growing Harvard. And certainly it would not strain University finances to refinish the blackboard in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Center, constructed of concrete with large areas of glass, is located on Quincy St. between the Faculty Club and the Fogg Art Museum...
...room, and organized social functions. Chocolates are upstairs in their room, in Mallinckrodt, in "Rad Libe," in Restaurants, at their organization's headquarters, or eating early dinner. Limes are also in Widener (although more likely in the stacks, than the reading room), in cafeterias and coffee shops, in the Fogg, and in people's apartments...
...Harvard University must have looked no bigger than a 50-franc note. The new Visual Arts Center that Harvard wanted France's irascible Le Corbusier to build was to stand between the neo-Georgian Faculty Club on busy Quincy Street and the more heavy-handed neo-Georgian Fogg Art Museum only yards away. How could the master of "brutal"' architecture put up anything that would not look like a brash intruder? Last week the center was in full operation, and Harvard was pretty much agreed that though it might be difficult to live in, it was a great...