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...trip to London last year, Saarinen (whose most recent projects have been General Motors' $68 million Technical Center in Detroit and M.I.T.'s tricornered Kresge Auditorium and cylindrical chapel-TIME, Dec. 5) decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square's older Georgian buildings, conform to surrounding heights and match cornice lines to nearby buildings...
Conflict between Georgian and modern architecture has held up the construction of the new Harvard Trust building. The board of 19 directors has been unable to decide on a final design for the new facade, although architects have submitted 50 sketches...
Arthur M. Wright, the bank's treasurer, said that the members of the board of directors over 50 years of age tended towards the Georgian, feeling that the present aspect of Harvard Square should not be changed. The younger group, Wright added, leans towards the modern types...
George E. Bates, James R. Williston Professor of Investment Management and a member of the board of directors, claimed that "there will always be great differences of opinion on the Georgian modern controversy." Bates himself was "not prejudiced one way or the other. I would like a good modern or a good Georgian," he said...
...design of the new house may have been revealed in specifications given to graduate architecture students by Arthur J. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services. Several plans for the new house, drawn up by students as an exercise, show a definite trend toward modern rather than the traditional Georgian design...