Word: irregularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commissioned last year to design two new colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than...
Courts and Crescents. Last week, as Yale released its plans for the two new colleges, it was clear that Saarinen had indeed turned his back on modern architecture's shibboleth of repetition, regularity and smooth surfaces. Instead, Saarinen had produced two irregular structures of crescents and courts built of earthy, monolithic masonry. For the exterior walls, he devised a method of rubblestone construction that would do away with expensive hand labor. Stones varying in size from three to eight inches are placed in wood forms; then cement mortar is pumped in through hoses. Before the cement has completely...
...many years before work began in the spring of 1903, demand had been growing for a new stadium. Sensitive souls were offended by what they called "a forest of columns supporting a rambling and irregular structure," and felt, with the increase of traffic in the Soldiers Field area, that the former grandstands were a poor advertisement for the University...
Trial & Temptation. At first, remembers Strelitzer, Oliver "was irregular-beautiful and smooth one moment, harsh the next. He needed to develop his breathing, head resonance and overtones to bring out the true quality uniformly. He has worked very hard to do this and has succeeded wonderfully well...
...revolt of the 20-year-old Guardsman of No. 1 Company, Coldstream Guards,* who bore the appropriate name of Victor Footer. He steadfastly denied that he had intentionally kicked the woman, even though she was "sniggering" at him. But he was marched off to Wellington Barracks and charged with "irregular conduct while on sentry-go" and with being "extremely idle"-a brigade term used to cover anything unbecoming a guardsman. By the time Footer got his ten days CB (confinement to barracks), he was a national hero...