Art: 70 Against the World

Said the architects' most eloquent spokesman: "The world man has constructed is without sincerity, without scale, without cleanliness—narrow in space, without light and cowardly in color. . . ."

The men for whom M.I.T. Professor Gyorgy Kepes spoke were presumably men who could do something to change all these evils. They were 70 of the world's top architects, designers and engineers, gathered last week in Princeton, N. J. for one of the world forums in Princeton's bicentennial celebration.

Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's...

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