Word: architects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old black architect has been named associate dean of the Graduate School of Design...
...architecture." T.E. Hulme said it, and the sentiment points toward an important notion about design. The buildings around us are the significant objects in our landscape, and if a place is depressing-or dazzling, or manicured, or red-it can call up a corresponding emotional reply in us. An architect designs a building, it is constructed, and suddenly a new fact has insinuated itself into our consciousnesses. Few other arts can claim such immediacy of impact, or assault...
...will do to it, but rather what Charles Eames will do with it. In the same way that he has transformed the lounge chair and ottoman into a voluptuous and functional medley. Eames has transformed the lecture into a multi-image, multi-media environment: in 1940 Eames and architect Eero Saarinen won first prize for designs entered in the Museum of Modern Art's Organic Furniture Competition; and at the University of Georgia and UCLA in 1953, Eames and his wife, Ray, for the first time used multi-media techniques in a public presentation...
Visiting with Charles Eames projects multi-images rather than words; he defies labeling. Eames is the designer and architect, the artist and film-maker, the scientist and philosopher. Perhaps the connection is his gift as problem-solver-whether it's in designing a computer exhibit for New York's IBM building or in joining a metal support to the back of a chair...
Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office) is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect, Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Miles van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...