Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article in the February 12 CRIMSON about the panel discussion on Architecture at Harvard reported incorrectly my statements on Human Scale...
When a dispute is brought before the A.A.A., three arbitrators listen to both sides, study the evidence and pronounce judgment. If the evidence cannot be brought into the hearing room, the arbitrators go out to examine it on the spot. One panel spent hours in a warehouse poking through bundles of broom straw that the purchaser claimed had been ruined by rats...
...loser's good name is safeguarded: hearings are closed to the public and awards are kept secret. As some lawyers see it, the greatest merit of arbitration in business disputes is that experts decide the outcome. In a dispute over faulty workmanship in houses, for example, the A.A.A. panel consisted of an architect, a building-materials manufacturer, and an insurance executive specializing in housing matters. To make sure it has the right experts to rule on any imaginable controversy, the A.A.A. maintains a list of 13,000 available arbitrators with special knowledge in 700 separate fields, from antiques...
Speaking with Ackerman in an Eliot House panel discussion of Harvard architecture, Eduard F. Sekler, professor of Architecture, asserted that "no architect can be better than his client," and stressed the "responsibility of the soer for informed criticism...
...panel discussion on "The Present and Future of Architecture at Harvard" will be held at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House Dining Hall. James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, Sydney J. Freedberg, professor of Fine Arts, and Eduard F. Sekier, professor of Architecture, will speak, and slides will be shown...