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As architects began rediscovering the virtues of color and history and whimsy a decade ago, the buildings that resulted were often derided as cartoonish exercises in kitschy nostalgia. Disneyesque became a standard pejorative applied to the work of such post-Modernists as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. Now, rather...
Disneyites occupy a zany new Neoclassical corporate headquarters that Graves designed in Burbank, Calif. (the Seven Dwarfs, each cast 19 ft. tall in concrete, support the pediment). In December the first guests checked into Stern's two ersatz-turn-of-the-century hotels at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista...
For the past 30 years, Harvard seems to have fallen into the habit of constructing positively hideous modern buildings. But students and architecture critics alike are looking to this year's construction of the DeWolfe Street dormitory to break Harvard's masochistic mold of modernism.
Lecturer in Architecture Jeremiah Eck has said the twin buildings feel "like a condominium project rather than a student dorm." But most students who are being given DeWolfe rooms by six affiliated houses don't seem to mind.
What more seductive place to locate a story about love and other disasters? The city has its irresistible charms: 18th century architecture, a dashing 19th century history and old families that have been likened to the ancient Chinese because they eat rice, drink tea and worship their ancestors. Minutes away...