Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Globe phrased it nicely: "The titan of international architecture, harmonizer of the social, industrial, physical and esthetic needs of modern man, is building a pigsty." Admitted Architect Walter Gropius, 84, explaining why a man who designed the Bauhaus and Boston Center would stoop to a pigsty: "I lost a bet." The bet, he added, was with Friend Philip Rosenthal, owner of the Rosenthal China Co., who brought out a line of china that Gropius was willing to bet would not sell well. The architect offered to pay off in a new home for Rosenthal's porker Roro. Rosenthal...
Cambridge has become a center for architects for two reasons--the universities and Walter Gropius...
...next page three important Cambridge architectural firms are examined, and Gropius speaks on his work and philosophy. On pages four and five there is a look at the architect at Harvard: a portrait of Design School Dean Jose Luis Sert and a survey of changes in the undergraduate architectural sciences program...
Harvard's built some pretty great stuff, notably the Carpenter Center and Gropius's Bauhaus building, Harkness Commons. But it doesn't try so hard every time and sometimes it just flops. The McKay Labs (upper right) are functional but featureless. And Yamasaki's (he later built the Woodrow Wilson School building at Princeton) William James Hall (left) is visually unbalanced and doesn't fit into its surroundings. The Loeb (above) just sits there but then really makes it at night. Hilles Library, too, is neat in the dark but scares the people who live across Garden St. Sert...
Thirty years ago Walter Gropius came to Harvard. This was the beginning of the end of the beaux arts system of education in the United States. Since that time the design professions have become increasingly aware of their responsibility to create an environment that is more than an act of will. The formalist traditions are giving way to something much more complex, appropriate, and exacting. At one time the environment was from, and the architect could justifiably freeze music, but today the situation is much different. The new architecture is a broad and detailed response to society. As such...