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The most senior member of the department, Porter Professor of Fine Arts James S. Ackerman, is considered the world's foremost authority on Renaissance architecture. His renown is matched by colleague Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, whom National Gallery of Art Director Sydney Freedberg has called the foremost...
Department Chairman Neil Levine, one of the youngest senior Fine Arts faculty members, is a highly regarded historian of French and American architecture and has just finished a book on Frank Lloyd Wright. He also draws praise for his administrative commitment to resolving the department's problems.
"Architecture is always a situation of compromise," he said. "The principal requirements were met although some were modified.... The clients were delightful, not difficult and sympathetic to our problems."
Kidder also provides bonuses: vest-pocket essays on architecture and the lumber business; insights into bidding, building techniques and the pleasures of physical labor. His builders are a proud bunch not given to "cob jobs," carpenters' jargon for sloppy work. Their praise is dispensed with the left hand, as in...
DIED. Herbert Bayer, 85, Austrian-born designer, painter, architect, photographer and one of the last surviving master teachers of the Bauhaus school, which believed that modern art and architecture should respond to the industrial world; in Montecito, Calif. Bayer was celebrated for his contributions to the Container Corp. of America...