Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Juilliard building is a triumph of architecture, technology and sheer cash. Designed by Architect Pietro Belluschi and put up at a cost of $30 million, the building encompasses 8,000,000 cubic feet spread over nine floors. It houses 15 gigantic rehearsal rooms, three organ studios, 84 practice rooms, 30 private studios, two recital halls (including Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's acoustically superb home for chamber music) and limitless vistas of plush, carpeted corridors and lobbies. There is also the thousand-seat Juilliard Theater. Its pop-up ceiling can be raised or lowered (up for big orchestras, down...
...been working with the architect, making all the kinds of cost savings that our people or the architect can come up with. Construction costs are so high today that unless you get some kind of an offset, such as a lower interest rate, you end up with rents that many faculty members will be unwilling to pay, even for the privilege of living in Cambridge...
...Dubcek's program of partial self-management for industry. The councils are now "under analysis" by the government and are no longer active. Josef Pavel, Interior Minister under Dubcek and a main force behind the reforms, was "suspended" from the Communist Party-one step from expulsion. Ota Sik, architect of last year's economic reforms, was kicked out of the party. His fate was hardly surprising, since he is now teaching in Switzerland and said in a recent speech that Prague's party spokesmen make Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels "look like an altar...
...McHarg is a 48-year-old landscape architect who delights conservationists with eloquent speeches that blast man the polluter as "a blind, witless, lowbrow, anthropocentric clod." With his Scottish burr, fierce beard and piercing eyes, McHarg is a cross between Jeremiah and a kind of male Rachel Carson. He is not only a symbol of rising anger at environmental abuses, but a successful practitioner of the hard art of stopping those abuses. In his new book, Design with Nature, which Lewis Mumford calls "a vision of organic exuberance and human delight," McHarg clearly shows that the main obstacle to saving...
McHarg grew up near Glasgow, hating the hideous city while exploring the handsome countryside around it. At 16, he decided to spend "a life giving to others the benison which nature gave to me." His model was Lancelot ("Capability") Brown, the 18th century landscape architect who transformed much of England into a showpiece of natural beauty before the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution. As McHarg fondly recalls, Brown was an ecological Faust. Once, on being asked to save Ireland, he grandly replied: "I have not yet finished England...