Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endless as one of his own escalators. "I have no illusions that this is now the new downtown," he says, "but even if this is only a piece, not the whole, it will demonstrate the three main tenets of my planning philosophy for downtown." First, "the separation of utilitarian func tions from human functions," i.e., truck and service traffic are separated from other traffic by use of the underground truck roads and the underground garage. Second, "the ideal city should fulfill the needs of variety and diversity." Midtown intermingles old and new buildings, tall ones and squat ones, and there...
...Airlines cut-rate youth fare, which will not be picked up by other lines. - The airlines are seriously considering lifting coach fares from about 75% of first-class fares to about 80-85% if CAB will agree-though they hope that fewer frills will ultimately make for cheaper, more utilitarian air travel...
...coldest of the titans of his time, but he will perhaps have left the warmest legacy. "Architecture," he once said, "goes beyond utilitarian needs. You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart. You do me good and I am happy and I say, 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters...
...inhabitant of the Towers, though not by choice. The best thing I can say about them is that they house some hundreds of students. This they do in a functional, utilitarian manner that would be perfectly acceptable at Florida State, but that is entirely amiss at Harvard...
...Leverett Towers constitute Harvard's contribution to low-cost housing: one thousand windows, precisely the same: one thousand radiators, precisely the same (no fireplaces); one thousand cheap (and ugly) linoleum floors--and untold millions of utilitarian cinder blocks, many of them unpainted. Every morning when I wake up and touch my ceiling (I do not have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows...