Word: werners
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There is no doubt that the Inn at Harvard in Quincy Square, the DeWolfe St. housing complex and Werner Otto Hall, the annex to the Fogg Art Museum--all of which are expected to be ready for use by the fall--will make a strong architectural impact on campus. But rather than exploring radical new territory, many critics say, the projects for the most part represent an affirmation of Harvard's traditional architectural style...
...designed by Graham Gund Associates, a well-known Boston firm. Goody Clancy and Associates Inc.--which has designed other Harvard projects in the past, such as the Center for European Studies and the Law School's Austin Hall--planned the DeWolfe St. project. Werner Otto Hall is the product of the award-winning New York firm Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, which designed the recent addition to the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan...
...most ambitious, and least traditional, of the three buildings is Werner Otto Hall, which will be the new home of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. For this building, fitting in with the surroundings has been especially important because it faces the untraditional Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the only North American building designed by the famous Swiss architect LeCorbusier...
...element which is set back from the street and turns to address the Carpenter Center," according to a statement by the architects. It also completes LeCorbusier's site circulation plan, a ramp which begins on Quincy St., continues through the Carpenter Center, and which will extend into the new Werner Otto Hall courtyard and down to Prescott St. by means of an exterior stair...
...with the mustache. Ernst was not a great formal artist, not by a very long chalk. But in the 1920s and '30s especially, he was a brilliant maker of images. Their strength and edginess radiate like new in the centenary Ernst exhibit, organized by art historian Werner Spies, which is at London's Tate Gallery this month and moves in mid-May to Stuttgart's Staatsgalerie. Long after the art movements to which Ernst contributed have passed into history, his images continue to detonate in the mind like unexploded land mines left on the old battlefield of modernism...