Things fall apart
The news that Cambridge University may 14, have to demolish Mr James Stirling's 'story Faculty building will sadden lovers of our b architectural heritage. The glass and rick building has been a much noticed feature of the Cambridge scene for years Years, to be exact). No one who read istor- in those years will quickly forget the quaint working conditions, the building's sensitive ability to reflect the changing leasons in its tirl internal temperatures and Mr i
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fact compulsory, to hear three ectures simultaneously. By its austere '
a.,Iscouragement of undergraduates, it has flicceeded in countering the trend to ,ac,tlitY-based study and so has strengthened 170ilege ie It is typical of modern P.hilistinism to argue that it should be egheiriolished on the grounds that it would be b,.e.Per to knock the building down and "lid another one than to repair it. If such a view were to become the orthodoxy scarcely a single building of the 1960s would survive.
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