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...hall, whose interior walls, repeating the grille motif, rise majestically to the shallow, ruler-straight roof. A sculpturally handsome staircase spirals upward to the private quarters, which are ranged around the two-story-high central hall. The clean, modified-Mogul lines of Roosevelt House reveal the fine hand of Architect Edward D. Stone, whose U.S. embassy chancery in New Delhi (TIME, Jan. 12, 1959) established the grille as an adornment of contemporary architecture...
...Architect Stone is defensive about the Galbraiths' complaints: "Why are they carping about these little points? These petty features obscure the truth-they are living in a palace." Stone is right, and even the ambassador concurs in principle. When Roosevelt House was dedicated in January, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru admired its beauty but wondered about its practicality. Rejoined Galbraith: "I urge in reply that utility and economy are the enemies of good architects, and certainly no builder is ever remembered for practicing these traits...
...keep enrollment steady, the planners hope to rebuild 92% of the university. On the boards are hundreds of new buildings, including a twelve-story hospital. Science and medicine will dominate, with more than ten times the space allotted to "sciences of the spirit." Theology gets short shrift, says one architect, because "they'll never discover anything world-shaking." Beams Nobel-winning Chemist Otto Hahn: "Now the university will start to grow again...
...letter written last week, the French architect told President Pusey that his health would prevent his presence at the formal opening of the Center May 27. He is 76 years...
...letter was a response to Pusey's invitation sent about ten days ago. Jose L. Sert, dean of the Faculty of Design, had written to Le Corbusier in January, but the architect was uncertain about his plans then...