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Article: Wampler: the Walt Whitman of architects
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 31, 1996
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OPEN STRINGS FOR E: SEARCH ON THE JOURNEY
At: The MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, through Sept.
30.
Jan Wampler is an architect who believes in the motto "Small is
beautiful." He hates grand ideas and high-style designs. He
thinks architects ought to spend their time joining hands with other
people in the healing mission of creating better places to live and
work.
Wholeness is the word for Wampler. Somehow, he's succeeded in
integrating even his cancer into his total being, regarding it as an
opportunity for self-exploration.
Wampler's been a professor for 25 years in the architecture school
at MIT. There he helps students learn to create buildings as modest
and responsive ...