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...have just read the abusive editorial of Mr. Andrew T. Well, who must be a very young man, but who writes like a crotchety old snapper afflicted with gout or perhaps colic. Apparently Mr. Weil does not like the new building. "I loathe it," he tells us; and he applies the terms "hideous," "cheap," and "sleazy" to the work of the architect. Weil, I suppose there is plenty of room for disagreement in matters of taste (though it is also true that such disagreement can always be expressed in good taste, a point not particularly well exhibited by the editorial...
...Holyoke Center does not belong to Dean Sert and is not in his back yard; it is on the property of a University one of whose aims is the education and civilization of Mr. Weil, among others. If the Holyoke Center were a low four stories Mr. Weil would like its height, but would probably complain that is was not airy enough since it pushed him into the street. So he would again write an editorial requesting "something spacious and airy" and "uncluttered" which presumably means a vacant parking lot of 85,600 sq. ft. adjacent to Harvard Square...
...will patiently wait for the answer. In the meanwhile the Holyoke Center will be completed and Mr. Weil may notice that twice as much of a bad thing can be half...
...duration he might also outgrow his paranoid delusion that there exists a secret brotherhood among architects whose cosa nostra is the clever foisting of "cheap", "disfiguring", "sleazy", "hideous", "bad", "unsightly", "unbalanced", "ugly", "monstrous", and (finally) "unattractive" buildings upon the architecturally uneducated public among whom Mr. Weil is the example par excellence. K. Paul Zygas...
...WEIL REPLIES: What I wrote was not an editorial, but the expression of my personal views. I do not question the ingenuity of some of Dean Sert's ideas--such as diffused light--or the value of such things as parking, trees, and space. I only ask if a building cannot take care of these things and still be attractive...