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...Dean Sert reveals plans for the tenth House: a sixteen-story windowless inverted pyramid "gaily painted with colors reflecting the spirit of our times." Refuting charges of structural instability, Sert points out that "even the ancients knew the triangle was the most stable geometric form, and my pyramid will contain many triangles...
...people in Boston can be part of bohemia and find romantic places to live all over the city, it's married Harvard students," he said. "Some people around the Square were getting pretty high rents for what were essentially holes, and it will bring their prices down. But [Dean] Sert spent a lot of money on getting outside architectural effects--my guess is that living inside would be pretty dreary...
Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Faculty of the Design School and architect of Holyoke Center, said he had been consulted by Rothko "very pleased" with the paintings...
Still, Mr. Weil goes too far when he suggests that he is the honest babe who proclaims the emperor to be naked. Sert's building, in my estimation, is a fine building, one that spontaneously gains the admiration of many people whose eyes are open. I am grateful he has contributed his powerful talents to the enrichment of the community...
...Weil, I would suggest that he try, somehow, to sense the spirit that led to Sert's creation, to look at the building with clear eyes as a man living in this time and this place, and to imagine how he might try to express the vitality, life, and peculiar spirit of our community. Wouldn't the vision come closer to Sert's product? The less creative alternate is to rant and rage endlessly, in darkness and without understanding. Stanley Milgram Assistant Professor of Social Psychology