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DIED. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, 81, art historian and architectural critic; in London. A university lecturer in Germany who fled Hitler in 1933, Pevsner became a devoted student and admirer of his adoptive England, where a fascination with the society and its architecture inspired his 46-volume, still definitive critique The...
Nobuo Hozumi, who taught at Harvard and is now with Waseda's architecture department, said, "Technology may not be the triumph we thought it would be. More than ever, we need the warm touch of the human hand." Maki studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills...
In contrast to Maki's rational restraint, Isozaki's new civic center in Tsukuba, "science city," looks, positively baroque in its exuberance. It consists of a 1,200-seat symphony hall, convention facilities and a 15-story hotel tower, circling a sunken court lined with shops. The rock...
"The craftsmen here enjoy the challenge of new technologies as much as their own crafts," explains Maki. "So do contractors, who are mostly graduates of architecture school. They'd rather lose money on a job than their reputation. Lawsuits are unheard of."
Architecture and design training is tough by American standards. "We have long ago abandoned Bauhaus theorizing," says Hozumi, "and replaced it with art exercises and hard drill. We have little time and much to learn. It takes humility, discipline and sweat."