Word: circularity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's head, removing the 2.7-lb. brain and dissecting it into 240 pieces before taking the 20th century's most important gray matter home in a glass jar filled with formaldehyde...
...much he talks about spaces that hug people. But sitting with him last week in the cafeteria he created for the headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing firm in midtown Manhattan, you could see what he means. The blue titanium walls bulge toward you like expectant mothers. The circular banquettes are surrounded by floor-to-ceiling sheets of plate glass, but each of them is uniquely curved and torqued so that together they form a voluptuous encirclement all around you. For some architects, it's enough to return you to your youth. Gehry brings you back to the womb...
...Pennypacker's central circular staircase is a great place for congregating. And people do. "The Pack's" bright landings are full of people at all hours, and a four-story beer funnel makes an appearance on its open stairwell once a year or so. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, but their quirky shapes offer a change of pace from the standard Yard dorms...
...Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm "the Butt"--live in "pods;" huge circular common rooms with singles branching off of them. Most of Hurlbut's oddly shaped rooms are comfortable and in good repair...
...this is not to the story's detriment, although it is not really in keeping with his usual style of grounding in historical details. Still, he catches certain moments with such accuracy it is uncanny. One such moment: "It was like the Asian Nod, which included in its almost circular movement the possibility...