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After the President explained U.S. actions in Viet Nam (see THE NATION), visitors got their first look at the concrete and glass cruciform structure designed by I. M. Pei to be the first of three buildings in Syracuse University's Newhouse Communications Center-a $15 million gift from Sam. The new building will house the School of Journalism in superbly equipped surroundings. In two experimental underground classrooms, students will answer examination questions by pushing buttons and a computer instantly totes up their scores. Other rooms are set up like regular city rooms, complete with wire-service Teletype machines. Construction...
Among the others on the committee are Alar Aalto of Helsinki, who designed Baker House, a dorm at M.I.T.; Mies van der Rohe of Chicago, who designed the Seagrams Building in New York; Louis Kahn of the University of Pennsylvania; I. M. Pei, who draw up the general plan for the Boston Government Center; and Sir Basil Spence of London
...through local folk dances. Seeking more merriment, the group moved on to an army officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms up" in Chinese), Chou finally sat down to a sumptuous banquet. Communist Ruler Enver Hoxha described it as "a family dinner, just as if you were at home." After such a hectic night of pub crawling, Chou probably wished that he were...
...previous selections of Distinguished Architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Stone and Le Corbusier. And thank you for placing it under Art, where architecture belongs, as it is and always has been a fine art. Mies van der Rohe and Bunshaft come under engineering and IBM machines. And I. M. Pei belongs under water...
...beautiful building,' and there is not even a thought to the architecture." Of the famous Seattle Pavilion, one top Manhattan architect says : "The Pavilion's structure looks as if you could buy it by the section and glue it together." Adds an other Manhattanite, Architect I. M. Pei: "The water in the courtyard is fine, very successful, but the building is not. Yama mass-produced a façade in the Gothic idiom