Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems we just can't know what punishment the framers considered cruel and unusual," Brennan said, adding that the "majestic generality" of the Constitution paves the way for modern interpretations by jurists...
...time the premiere center of Modern, or International, style of architecture in the United States, the GSD has trained a generation of architects who have transformed the character of the American city. Even within the parameters of Harvard, architects associated with the GSD also designed the lion's share of campus buildings constructed during the 1960s and 1970s...
Even though Dean Hudnut coined the phrase "post-modern" in 1946, the GSD was not associated with any of the movements that sought alternatives to Modernism in the late 1960s and 1970s...
...been by way of example. When the GSD was founded, American buildings were primarily done in the Beaux Arts style, a mish-mash of the architectural conventions of the past. Working architects were well aware of the International Style, thanks largely to the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art. Nevertheless, there was considerable resistance to it, both by clients and architects unfamiliar with the style, and unimpressed by what they had seen...
...seems we just can't know what punishment the framers considered cruel and unusual," Brennan said, adding that the "majestic generality" of the Constitution paves the way for modern interpretations by jurists...