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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) would like to respond to the editorial notebook by Lia C. Larson ’04 entitled “The Long Walk Home” (Oct. 21 ). We reject Larson’s assertion that the University will take action only after something terrible happens and that the HUPD is resting on the laurels of low crime rates. Our mission always is to provide a safe and secure environment for all community members. The HUPD never dismisses safety concerns of the community and, in fact, works closely with students, faculty and staff in identifying...
...best collegiate players in the country. Lingman defeated Lastra 6-4, 1-6, 6-1, outlasting the Cardinals’ second singles star in the Palo Alto heat. Lingman won 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 singles against Fresno St. and defeated Northwestern’s Lia Jackson 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to round out her impressive homecoming...
...year of conferences, exhibitions, school activities and open days - smaller shows are being negotiated for cities ranging from Berlin, Rome and London to Shanghai and Philadephia - is to go beyond the postcard image of Gaudí's best-known work, the incomplete Sagrada Família cathedral. (Its latest guesstimated finishing date is 2030.) "Today Gaudí is more popular than known, and we want to change that," says Giralt-Miracle. "He had his feet on the ground, but his imagination in the infinite, arriving at a time - the turn of the 19th century - when the Catalan bourgeoisie had lots...
...been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...
Many architects would say Orwell was talking through his hat. Le Corbusier described the school Gaudí designed as part of the Sagrada Família project - its roof an ingenious, wave-like structure - as "a masterpiece." Norman Foster has called Gaudí's methods revolutionary. Spain's best-known architect, Santiago Calatrava, shows Gaudí's influence in his use of trencadís (broken ceramic tiles) as decoration, his use of arches, and his primary source of inspiration - nature...