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The winning entry in the Harvard-Radcliffe Architecture and Design Group's Environmental Art Contest, the two-foot-high birds spent the day at Sever Quad, the lawn between Sever, Robinson and Emerson Halls.
"It looks absolutely ridiculous," said Julian A. Treger '84, whose room took second place in a previous Architecture and Design Group competition. "I think they'd be much more in place at the Arctic," he added.
Cranbrook's first great achievement was the 350-acre campus itself, which includes four schools, an institute of science and a museum. The complex was founded by Detroit Newspaper Magnate George Gough Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, both philanthropists and aesthetes under the spell of the arts...
As a number of photos and drawings in the exhibition demonstrate, the Saarinen architectural vision soon left its mark on other parts of the U.S. as well. With his architect son Eero, Saarinen collaborated on such buildings as the innovative Crow Island School (with Perkins, Wheeler and Will) in Winnetka...
Nowhere has it been more true than at Cranbrook that "architecture is the mother of the arts," as architects are fond of saying. Among the works created under the academy's aegis: the sculpture of Carl Milles, Tony Rosenthal, Harry Bertoia and others; the rugs and wall hangings of...