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...rising prominence of Future Systems is one more sign of the remarkable shift in architectural taste over the past decade. One of these days someone will write a revisionist history of 20th century architecture that will trace the survival of a line. I don't mean a bloodline. I mean an actual line, a ribboning, curving one with sources in plant life and cellular forms and the swells and inlets of the human body. It was that undulating line that Modernism almost did away with when it swept into power in the middle of the 20th century, stomping its robot...
...Harvard, Dean of Freshmen Thomas R. Dingman ’67 sent an e-mail to first-year students about the events yesterday.“Given the recent tragedy in which two BU students were killed in a fire ignited by a candle, I write to urge you to pay the closest attention to our fire safety rules,” he wrote. “In particular, the use of candles and other sources of open flame are not allowed; and smoking is prohibited in all dormitory areas.”AT THE SCENEAt...
...form of a novel. “That sense of duty that you have to a person—telling it well was everything. Just telling it wasn’t good enough,” Eggers said. Valentino explained his motivation in seeking someone out to help him write his autobiography and detail his experiences as a refugee. “This is a story of the war that affected an entire nation. It’s a story about genocide and I wanted to bring that to people so that they could know about events that were taking...
...report specifically rejects this, asserting that the new Standing Committee on General Education “should not impose a one-format-fits-all standard (amount of reading, number of exams, and so on) on general education courses.” It is up to the legislative committee to write this lenient philosophy into the new general education system and to construct a Standing Committee on General Education that is more flexible than its current counterpart.It is also up to Faculty legislation—which would presumably be drafted by the same committee—to deal with the transition...
...been further refined by Steinhardt and Dov Levine, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania. The new study—to be published in the upcoming issue of Science—links geometric concepts to Islamic art. The “girih tiles,” Lu and Steinhardt write, describe the Islamic patterns that may have served as models for creating huge masterpieces without the extensive and often inconsistent practice of separately drawing each line segment. Historians had previously assumed that artisans used straightedges and compasses to produce the ornate patterns. “It would be incredible...