Word: preservationism
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For more than three centuries Harvard has been celebrated as a curator of historical architecture. But recently, the University's reputation for historical preservation has been attacked by a number of alumni and architects infuriated by the renovations planned for the Harvard Union.
The skylight will lighten up the great hall and the floor below through a recess in the floor of the atrium. The final renovation plans were reviewed and supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the same organization who bestowed the award last year upon Harvard for the restoration...
Israel is a country premised on a paradox. It is an avowedly secular state established to promote Jewish national life, to turn the Jews, in other words, into an autonomous people like the French or the Germans. At the same time it is a Jewish state which takes as its...
Yet the University managed to complete its deliberations in almost complete isolation from experts in the historical preservation community. And it carried out the razing during the Thanksgiving vacation--the better to diffuse protesters' efforts to decry this wreckless decision.
"In terms of historic preservation, we focused on the stadium," said Harris S. Band, director of comprehensive planning for the University.