Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Most black students either have no energy to expand beyond adjusting to the Harvard dsituation or are already so angry that PBH will not attract them," said Barnes. Another PBH executive, Petri, expanded on this to say that "while the middle class Harvard student is used to minor change and...
Yamasaki's William James Hall is one of the best examples of the artistic, intuitive approach. The exterior is an artistic study in perspective, but it is competely out of proportion with the rest of the Harvard campus. Thus it is isolated from its environment.
A firm full of graphic designers, architects, photographers, and film makers seems like a hopelessly heterogeneous bunch. Freeman is not quite sure where the firm is going, but, like The Seven, his concerns are wide-range communications and planning for the complete environment.
Harvard's built some pretty great stuff, notably the Carpenter Center and Gropius's Bauhaus building, Harkness Commons. But it doesn't try so hard every time and sometimes it just flops. The McKay Labs (upper right) are functional but featureless. And Yamasaki's (he later built the Woodrow Wilson...
...freeze music, but today the situation is much different. The new architecture is a broad and detailed response to society. As such, it must be based on an accurate and thorough knowledge of that society, through the disciplines of sociology, economics, politics and psychology. The proposed Program for Advanced Environmental Studies seems to offer evidence that the school is very concerned with this sort of rational and comprehensive approach to the design of the environment...