Word: geometricism
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Dean Joseph Hudnut, of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, has a seeing eye for architectural pretense. He has paid his respects to the campuses of the large Eastern colleges in a little pamphlet called The Gothick Universitie; he has likened Washington's unfinished Jefferson Memorial to "an...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored...
"The House system's great success is largely due to President Lowell's inspiration which was realized in the opening of Dunster House ten years ago," declared President Conant. Conant called this an historic occasion according to his theory that the great anniversaries are the first, tenth, and so on...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined...
Zeno of Elea (Fifth Century B. c.) declared it would be impossible for Achilles to catch a tortoise, provided the tortoise had a head start. For, said Zeno, Achilles would first have to reach the spot where the tortoise started. At that moment the tortoise would be some distance, however...