Art: The Hand & the Head

To an architect who had built an entire city in India, the site of the proposed building at Harvard University must have looked no bigger than a 50-franc note. The new Visual Arts Center that Harvard wanted France's irascible Le Corbusier to build was to stand between the neo-Georgian Faculty Club on busy Quincy Street and the more heavy-handed neo-Georgian Fogg Art Museum only yards away. How could the master of "brutal"' architecture put up anything that would not look like a brash intruder? Last week the center was in full operation, and Harvard was pretty much agreed that though it...

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