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...Hans Guggenheim, professor of Architecture at MIT, Wiedemann and four MIT graduate students will convert granaries of the drought-stricken Dogon tribe into water storage tanks...
...short, it seems that Mies, like his opponent Frank Lloyd Wright in the snailly windings of the Guggenheim Museum, felt a lofty unconcern verging on arrogance toward the needs of arts other than his own. Every grand old man has a prescriptive right to his clichés. But few have exercised it with more ruthlessness than Mies van der Rohe in this, his last building...
...Wundamin Fund is financing part of Guggenheim's project. A few other groups have expressed interest in funding the efforts, including National Geographic, which is considering doing a television program on the expedition...
Several students in Guggenheim's architecture seminar at MIT are constructing a full-scale model of a granary to test Dogon waterproofing cement. The high, conical granaries have an approximate capacity of 2500 gallons, according to Guggenheim...
...Guggenheim said the granaries' mythological significance will help make the water system acceptable to the Dogons. According to legend, the granaries were brought to Earth by the water god Nommo...