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Professor of the History of Architecture Howard Burns of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is directing a project based out of a museum in Mantua, Italy, designed to recontruct a full-scale model of an early Renaissance Italian architect's home. Using only 16th-century documents, a few drawings and analyses of Renaissance era houses still standing, Burns travelled to Mantua last summer with a "research cum-design cum-construction crew" of Harvard students to begin the project...
Putting together the structure was not as simple as the team had first thought. "Inside, the pallazio was nice and cool, but outside when we were doing the final work, it was 112-degrees," says Erik Anderson, one of the GSD students on the project...
...minute video, titled "Building Peace in the Midst of War," features the experiences of a 14-member delegation from the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project. The group--including local video producer Carol Yourman--traveled to San Jose las Flores in June 1987 to bring the village humanitarian...
...Sister City Project will show the video free of charge at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School from 7 to 9 p.m. The evening will also include Central American music, a photo exhibit, student presentations and refreshments. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) and Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci will attend...
Sister City Project director David Grosser said the group hoped to help rebuild San Jose las Flores, to use public opinion in North America to help safeguard human rights in El Salvador and "to facilitate citizen-to-citizen contact between people in El Salvador and the United States...