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"There's no question that Harvard used to be the premiere school in architecture and landscape architecture in the world, but that terminated 15 years ago," said Ian L. McHarg, chairman of the landscape architecture and regional planning-department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
He said the school needed to expand its advanced education in response to changing conditions in professional architecture and design, but a major focus of this spring's discussions would be whether they can attract sufficient students and funding to make it feasible.
"When President Mitterrand approached me," recalls Pei, "I was not so sure that anything much could or should be done about the Louvre. I certainly did not want to take part in a competition. I asked for three months to think about the problem-not to draw or design anything...
Says Barnes: "We wanted the visitor to remember painting in space, sculpture against sky and a sense of continuous flow, a sense of going somewhere." Barnes, 68, studied with Bauhaus Leaders Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard, and has kept faith with their nononsense, functionalist International Style. His new...
The next "giant step," as Reagan called the space-station proposal, will actually begin with a moderate stride. For fiscal 1985 the Administration will seek no more than $150 million extra in NASA's $7.2 billion budget to plan the station's architecture and set its specific goals...