Ed School Reveals Plan To Construct New Center

The Graduate School of Education called yesterday that it is again considering plans for the construction of a new Appian Way headquarters.

Edward G. Kaebler, assistant dean, said yesterday that the building would humble a medieval tower. It will differ significantly in appearance from the more traditional architecture of the immediate neighborhood. Kaebler added that he was trying "to find some building that will form a backdrop to the others--one of a quiet design."

Kaebler will meet with the Faculty of the Ed School sometime this month in order to get permission to proceed with construction of the building. "About January 7 or 8," he said, "we will either go back to the drawing boards or start building."

The School of Education ran into double last spring when an executive Committee of the Cambridge City Council added to turn the area in which the posed building is to be situated into historic district."

According to the historic distract proposal which is now before a council committee no building could be erected with historic district unless plans for the construction have been passed by the permanent historic district commission.

Kaebler Seeks Compromise

Kaebler said that because of controversy concerning the design of the building he has been working continually with the Faculty in an effort to "find a compromise that will be pleasing to all governed."

The Taxas architectural firm of Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott have submitted a set of drawings which call for a square brick building with irregularly shaped windows on each side. Kaebler reported that some of the windows may be two stories high while others will be "short and fat."

Kaebler stressed the attempts of the architects to design a building original in appearance, but one which would not stand out blatantly from the surrounding buildings.