Word: gothic
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...architecture of Yale University has long been an enormous clutter of poorly integrated styles and hideous imitations, where Gothic halls are topped by Georgian towers, smoke-stacks disguised as medieval spires, and streets lined with Greek, Italian, Byzantine, and ancient Egyptian fakery. In recent years, however, Yale has begun what its enthusiasts consider a revolution in college building...
...execution of the college plan in New Haven was begun shortly after the house system was instituted in Cambridge. The Yale colleges were constructed in a monolithic, pseudo-Gothic style, even less original than Harvard's neo-Georgian style. The Gothic structures were added to a sizeable collection of buildings which represented virtually every major style in the last five centuries of Western architecture. Saarinen's first and most formidable challenge was to create a design which would be compatible with the surrounding environment, an architectural landscape unimagined in even the weirdest conjectures of the most perverted student of design...
...site selected for the two colleges was a large, angular plot, bounded on one side by the huge Gothic tower of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and on the other by the unbelievable part-medieval, part-Georgian Graduate School. The design which Saarinen eventually produced offended neither on the two and managed, in fact, to blend excellently with the Gothic...
Illustrated examples of particular buildings demonstrated the extensive variety and aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete. Slides showed that, in his own work, Nervi has made concrete appear light and graceful in the same way as builders of the high Gothic period did with stone...
...million U.S. Science Pavilion, which stands at the summit of the fairground's gently sloping site, is a buoyant, crystalline stylization of the Alhambra (see color), with soaring arches of Gothic lacework and arcades of Moorish tracery. Covering an area larger than six football fields, it is the biggest exhibit based on a single theme ever assembled by government or private industry, will later be used for educational and scientific purposes. One of the fair's most spectacular features is its International Fountain, designed by two young Tokyo architects whose plan won a $250.000 international competition last year...