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The Boston Globe  on the dead architect of the previous post —

"Mr. McKinnell, who was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, taught for many years at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology School of Architecture and Planning."

Some ugly rhetoric to go with the ugly architecture —

The Boston Globe  Saturday on Friday's death of one of
the two architects of Boston City Hall —

A gifted storyteller, Mr. McKinnell liked to recount
the response of renowned architect Philip Johnson to
City Hall. “ ‘Absolutely marvelous. … I think it’s wonderful.
… And it’s so ugly!’ ” Mr. McKinnell told Pasnik, adding:
“We thought that was the greatest praise we could get.”

See more ugliness from this  journal on Friday —

See also this journal on the death of the other  City Hall architect.