![]() ![]() ![]() His critique of today's architectural culture has a hard-nosed clarity that is seldom found in today's writing about architecture. Silber, the former president of Boston University, may seem, as he notes, "an unlikely person to write a book on architecture." But he is an architect's son and a professional philosopher who, as the president of a major university for 25 years, directed the construction of buildings totaling 13 million square feet of floor area - more than most clients, to say the least. It is a thoughtful argument against the excesses of "designer" architects and urban-planning utopians. John Silber's " Architecture of the Absurd" might serve as an amicus brief for MIT. The suit seeks unspecified damages for "design and construction failures" at the Stata Center, a two-towered structure that opened three years ago, housing computer-science labs on MIT's Cambridge, Mass., campus. Then I just went on an Imperial Reconquest spree. I beat Odoacer with mercs, and then I beat an internal rebellion and Julius Nepos. I decided to play as Romulus Augustulus (the 8-year-old kid emperor) in 476. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has just filed suit against the architect Frank Gehry, whose wavy, odd-angled metallic forms infiltrate the skylines of many American cities and not a few abroad (like Bilbao, Spain). When the World Stopped Making Sense: Advice for a fun game Hey, so I recently took a look at this mod. ![]()
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