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...Drama of Powerful Forms Saarinen was a Modernist by birthright. His father Eliel was a Finnish architect whose radically clean-lined entry in the 1922 competition to design the Chicago Tribune Tower took second place in the contest but first place in history. For a rising generation of architects, that unbuilt proposal was an arrow pointing straight to the future and a strong influence on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. The fame it brought the elder Saarinen in the U.S. persuaded him to emigrate the following year from Finland to Chicago. A few months later, his wife...
...looking for ways to move beyond the arctic purities of Modernism's first generation. Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier had done what they could to cancel architecture's debt to the past and remake it from a kind of formal and historical ground zero. The second generation - of which Saarinen was a part, along with Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, I.M. Pei and Edward Durrell Stone - would struggle in different ways to reconnect architecture to its sources in history...
Harvard evened the score five minutes into the second period, thanks to some nifty playmaking by freshman forward Louis Leblanc and a solid finish by classmate Conor Morrison...
...teams’ even play in the second and third periods couldn’t compensate for the slow start...
...freshman found a way to use heavy coverage to his advantage in the second period, when he moved the puck through swarming Tigers onto the stick of a wide-open Morrison, who put the puck past Kalemba...