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When plans were first drawn for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912, the architect envisioned a grey, classic complex along the Charles River, with no building higher than five stories and a softly rounded dome providing the grace note. But in recent years, expanding M.I.T. has felt cramped on its 115-acre Cambridge campus. Something had to give, and what gave was M.I.T.'s low-lying skyline. The next addition to the campus, to be ready by 1962, will be the 20-story, $5,000,000 Earth Sciences* Center, designed by Alumnus Ieoh Ming...
...Shanghai banker, Pei was born in Canton in 1917, emigrated to the U.S. in 1935 to study architecture at M.I.T. "I did not know what architecture really was in China," he says. "At that time, there was no difference between an architect, a construction man, or an engineer." Graduated in 1939, Pei volunteered to work for the National Defense Research
City Planning. Once out of the service, he found it "hard for a foreigner to get architectural commissions." Teaching at Harvard in 1948, he was recommended to Builder William Zeckendorf as the kind of architect who could help Zeckendorf in his grandly conceived city projects. Zeckendorf hired him. "In city planning, you need a man like Zeckendorf," says Pei. "Only through men like him can an architect get into urban redevelopment. He can't do it himself, because he has no understanding of land values, movements and trends...
...Dulles International Airport, due to open near Washington, D.C. in 1961, is radically different in concept. Unlike most airports, it will have no passageways reaching out onto the apron to detract from its lofty, templelike terminal designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. Instead of jets coming up to terminal fingers, passengers will simply walk into giant "mobile lounges" that will move them out to the jets...
...element of vulgarity." But by last week, when the fierce Yankee bird was hoisted into place, most of the locals allowed that they would probably learn to live with it, though they may still prefer pigeons. A few were even inclined to agree with the embassy's renowned Architect Eero Saarinen, who had tried to calm their earlier qualms with a somewhat technical reassurance: "The eagle will provide a vertical reference point in an otherwise horizontal facade...