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Within five minutes of speaking to the curator of the exhibition, Lisa Pon (a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department), I realized that my ignorance at Prints and Privileges was largely self-induced. If only I had read the short descriptions which accompany each piece attentively...
The idea of copying as it both contributes to and defies art was explored further in the junior tutorial in the History of Art and Architecture department which Pon taught last year. The class was developed in conjunction with this show. Both the lectures which various students from that tutorial...
The Liszt sonata was another matter. Though not obvious at first, Ohlsson's approach to its many challenges was informed by a tight sense of musical architecture: emerging from all the kleptomaniacal rubati and enigmatic autofermatas was a storyteller's confidence. His fingerings were uncommon, his attack was lively bordering...
The second half of the hour was dedicated to an analysis of Meier's public works: museums, courthouses, corporation buildings and churches scattered throughout the United States and Europe. Many of these projects reflected the same theme of the dichotomy between public and private space. The majority of these buildings...
And here may lie the most important reason why young style seekers are returning to the '50s to find good design. They don't know where to look for it among their peers. There are no Case Study house programs anymore. Companies like Herman Miller and Knoll no longer seek...