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...they emphasize horizontal rather than vertical planes and their curved walls present a curator’s nightmare. Rather, Maltzan creates social spaces or civic arcades, suggesting the derive or “drifting” approach to movement developed by theorist Guy Dubord in the late 1960s. Maltzan’s architecture is about observation, not stasis...
Compounding the school’s space crunch is the antiquated infrastructure of the school’s current facilities—three of the four main buildings date from the 1960s or 1970s and require upgrades to their mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. SPH thus finds itself in a position where to keep its current Longwood buildings, it must renovate anyway, so the time is ripe for consideration of a new campus, the report says...
However, Harvard is over 30 years behind on this trend. The nationwide movement for the establishment of these programs began in the 1960s when, inspired by the ongoing civil rights movement, students first combined academic and activist orientations in the demand for Asian American studies. Unlike prior generations, young people believed that their common experiences as racialized and marginalized Asian immigrant groups in the United States transcended the conflict-ridden histories of their respective Asian countries of heritage. With the dehumanization of Vietnamese, Cambodians and other Southeast Asians in Western news coverage of the Vietnam War, the pressure for action...
DIED. LOTTE BERK, 90, German-born dancer who created a body-conditioning program based on a hybrid of yoga, dance and calisthenics; in Hungerford, England. The Lotte Berk method--with its sometimes suggestive positions and names (e.g., the Prostitute)--attracted a cult following among women in swinging 1960s London...
...House, which last year came in 7th place in year-end standings, finished the fall IM season with 419.17 points, and may be on track to win the Straus Cup for the first time since the 1960s...