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...Architect, by his arrangement of forms, realizes an order which is a pure creation of his spirit; by forms and shapes he affects our senses to an acute degree and provokes plastic emotions; by the relationships which he creates he wakes profound echoes in us, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in accordance with that of our world, he determines the various movements of our heart and of our understanding; it is then that we experience the sense of beauty. --Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture...
Tonight's medal recipients will include architect Le-Corbusier, physicist James A. Van Allen, who was responsible for the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts drdling the earth, and Donald A. Glaser, a Nobel Prize winner in physics last year for his work on the Bubble Chamber...
Further up Garden Street, the serious enterprise is beginning. In five years, perhaps four, Bunting hopes to have completed both a new House, on the corner of Linnaean and Garden, and the study center. Plans for both are quite tentative, but the search for an architect is now in progress, and construction will not wait upon the raising of funds...
Hugh A. Stubbins has been named the architect for the new Medical School library. Mr. Stubbins, who also designed the Loeb Drama Center and the new MIT Student Housing project, said that he has not yet begun work on the library...
Less Was More . . . The first part of the book deals with the old masters-Sullivan, Ferret, Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Finland's Alvar Aalto. Some readers may question Jones's conclusion that Wright and not Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of their generation, or that Wright's corkscrew Guggenheim Museum is his best work. (Perhaps because Le Corbusier is the most inaccessible of architects, Jones's chapter on him lacks the luster of the others...