Wampler: the Walt Whitman of architects

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960531
Author:Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

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 ...

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