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Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
...Goths maintained, perfectly correctly, given ... the prevailing intellectual climate of their time, that Gothic was the only style for churches. Where they went wildly wrong was to advance from this premise the untenable proposition that Gothic was the only style for railway stations...
Last week the prizewinning design and four runners-up were on display in London. They were the pick of 219 entries ranging from grandiose synthetic Gothic to slick, engine-room modern and including one plan for a completely underground job. Most of the designs brought groans and boos from experts and laymen alike. Said one British architectural journal, The Builder: "In an age when some power stations are uncommonly like cathedrals, it is not surprising that some cathedrals should look like power stations." Said the London Times: "Modern architecture must be given its chance, but. . . it is doubtful whether...
...physical layout of the Yale school seems to contribute to this spirit. The Sterling, Law Buildings, which occupy a block next to the Yale library, form a quadrangle of campus gothic surrounding a picturesque court. All the class-rooms, offices, the dining hall, the library, and the men's dormitories are in these buildings. Usually, most of the first-year men live in the quadrangle along with upperclassmen. The easy intermingling helps newcomers learn the ropes quickly and naturally...
...major artistic find, the frescoes are among the few Gothic wall paintings still in existence. For their fine state of preservation, Liibeck can thank sedate 15th Century churchmen who considered such lively church decorations old-fashioned and undignified, ordered them whitewashed in 1476. A generation or two later came the Reformation, the Marienkirche became a Protestant church, and the Lutherans kept up the whitewash treatment. In a short while, the underlying frescoes were forgotten by all but scholars...