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...encouraged to think otherwise by a second piece of asinine twaddle, again much closer to Lampy's norm. Two undergraduates find that Harvard's phantom colored paneler has murdered some Georgian architects. It's tough to imagine anyone cracking a smile over this insipid little soporific, except possibly Dean Sert...
Perched on a high, verdant ridge at Saint Paul de Vence above Nice, the museum is the elegantly terraced product of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...
...CRIMSON's dark horse for 1964: Jose Luis Sert...
...Hague, Marcel Breuer built a blunt, lantern-windowed structure as stolid as a Dutch door. In Athens, Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month...
...record, I think very highly of Dean Sert's work and the work of the others whom I am supposed to have "ripped," according to your headline writer. I like some of their buildings better than others, but I am certain that the intention behind all of their buildings is of the highest order. Peter Blake Managing Editor, "Architectural Forum...