Word: shands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Douglass Shand Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston, a book of architectural history, said the decision to raze the cage was ill-conceived...
Citing controversial additions of loading-bays to Memorial Hall and the decision to divide the Union's great hall, Shand-Tucci said...
Perhaps officials unschooled in architecture couldn't distinguish Carey's frame from a ski lodge (which, admittedly, it did rather resemble). Nevertheless, the storm of protest from experts in the field of design should have been more fully considered. As architectural historian Douglass Shand-Tucci '72 complained, "Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history this...
Citing the controversial additions to Memorial Hall, the decision to divide the Freshman Union's great space into separate offices and now the decision to demolish the cage, Shand-Tucci said: "History is important to Harvard. Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history in this...
Rather than blaming those at the top of the University's power structure, Shand-Tucci faults Harvard's growing bureaucracy, saying the decision to destroy the cage was likely made by "some lower level bureaucrat who wouldn't know the history of Harvard from the history of Stanford...