Word: sekler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome be built in a day? VAC official Eduard Sekler notes that all the existing masterpieces of urban design have evolved over a period of centuries, and before the advent of the elevator. Harvard Professor Willo von Moltke demonstrates, however, that Sekler's chief criteria--proportion, symbolic placement of essential buildings, "visual continuity," and reasonable traffic flow--can be employed in designing a new city (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela). Both articles are effectively illustrated...
Discussing Holyoke Center, Sekler admitted that it had to be big, but added, "You don't have to lose the human scale when you have a tall building." He said he thought the married students' apartments, also designed by Jose Luis Sert Dean of the Faculty of Design, much more successful in this regard...
Speaking with Ackerman in an Eliot House panel discussion of Harvard architecture, Eduard F. Sekler, professor of Architecture, asserted that "no architect can be better than his client," and stressed the "responsibility of the soer for informed criticism...
...Sekler warned against the "desecration of the environment by default." He cited the Cambridge electron nccelerator as an "unmitigated example of visual squalor" which had resulted from lack of concern. "It is not so much individual buildings us the total environment that matters...
...Sekler criticized the "arbitrariness" of much University architecture. "Why does this building look the way it does except that maybe it's pretty?" Ackerman tied this to the tendency of modern architects to "strive for the creation of the isolated...