Word: pei
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...after the University suggested that it was less than enthusiastic about pursuing this plan, T'ing C. Pei '65, president of the Harvard Alumni Association, said he thinks Harvard should create some form of distance learning program for its pool of alums...
...firm is best known for subdued historical renovations, but he and partner Todd Schliemann conceived the Rose Center as a brisk geometric eruption, like I.M. Pei's Louvre pyramid, that shakes up the buildings around them. The old Hayden Planetarium, demolished to make way for the Rose, had blended all too well with the museum's flavorless north end. Polshek's forms, by contrast, operate on our deepest fantasies about the order of the universe. His sphere is covered with steel panels that inscribe it with meridians and latitude lines, so it stands in easily for the earth...