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Enclosed is a rival architect's rendition of the proposed plans for the redecoration of Memorial Hall. The completion of such a phantasmag--or rather, inspired edifice should soon drive Messrs. Sheply, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot out of business. Drools, Glutnick, Blather & Klopson, Architects at Large. (M. Biddle, Acting Undersecretary...
Since Swiss-born Architect Le Corbusier uttered his famous dictum, "A house is a machine to live in," his followers have outdone themselves in paring down structures to their bare bones. While their efforts, seen from the outside, have often produced some handsome glass-walled slabs, the effect on the inside has too often been that of a streamlined, air-conditioned nightmare. To counteract these trends, a handful of modern architects have moved back towards rough tex tures and hand-worked surfaces to get away from the "over-calipered look...
Most recent example is Architect Eero Saarinen's new cylindrical chapel for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953), built of rough-textured brick and separated from the campus by a narrow moat. Meant to harmonize with the nearby brick dormitories, the nondenominational chapel presents a severe mask on its exterior; within, it is a citadel for repose and worship...
...notable change on the New Haven since McGinnis took over has been the bold use of color on its rolling stock and on some Cape Cod and Westchester County stations. Last week McGinnis' dark-haired wife Lucille, a onetime interior decorator, was riding the New Haven with Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki, bent on "perking up" the road's dark and dingy stations in what McGinnis calls (he "grey-flannel-suit area," i.e., Connecticut's commuter country. "Hell," explained McGinnis, "for another nickel you might as well make a thing look good...
Where was Architect Vlasov? A top member of a Soviet delegation studying U.S. building methods, he was in Manhattan, checked in at the Plaza Hotel and on a shopping expedition, when the news of Khrushchev's decree came through. "I do not believe what has been printed in the American press," said Delegation Leader Koziulia. "It's not true." Next day, boarding the Queen Elizabeth on his way home, Vlasov, smiling nervously, cracked: "As you see, I'm alive, and I'm in good humor." Added Russia's chief specialist in Stalinist baroque...