Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...glitter of the major cities, much of Poland reflects Socialism's noncaring dinginess. Mondays remain meatless. Long queues of shoppers extend from stores when supplies of scarce fruit and butter arrive. Salaries are low. The average worker earns only $75 per month, and though rents are low, housing space is cramped...
...people willing to trust our irrational side. There was a lot of trusting of instincts in this building." There was also a bow in the direction of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum. As in the Guggenheim, visitors move from level to level in a flow of curving space. But the tyranny Wright imposed with his irresistible, continuous spiral has been avoided at Berkeley...
...enters on a middle level and is given choices: up one floor to the permanent display of 45 paintings by Hans Hofmann-a bequest to the museum from his estate-or down to the free exhibition space on areas below. The floors are broken but connected by ramps, so that viewers move slowly downward through a constantly shifting interior, accented by promontories of raw concrete that jut over the halls like ships' prows. Says Director Peter Selz: "You devise ways and means of installing an exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made...
...violence have borne out his dire prophecies. He is too concerned with preventing further ravages by what he refers to as the "mechanical world view," the "megamachine," "technological exhibitionism"-never, thank God, the military-industrial complex. He has nothing but contempt for scientists who dream about dashing off into space or recreating life on another planet, when they have made such a botch of this one. He quotes a mathematician defending the costly moon project: "Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will" Why not, suggests Mumford, carry this notion to its logical...
...industrial age begin to mass-produce valueless goods. A far-fetched analogy? Mumford finds pyramids lurking everywhere in modern life. He includes an illustration of a supercity proposed by Buckminster Fuller that looks like a pyramid but lacks any perceptible improvement in living conditions. Even the manned space capsule "corresponds exactly to the innermost chamber of the great pyramids, where the mummified body of the Pharaoh, surrounded by the miniaturized equipment necessary for magical travel to heaven, was placed...