Word: archly
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Eduard F. Sekler, Director of the Carpenter Center and head of the Visual Studies program said that the combined field would give the Arch Sci and Visual Studies departments a chance to coordinate their programs and offer a much wider selection of experimental and lower level courses. "We've always had more applications than we could handle," Sekler said last week. "Under Environmental Studies we could accommodate more students, and offer a much broader curriculum...
Albert Szabo, Chairman of the Architectural Sciences Department, said that the proposed combination of fields would offer the Arch Sci department the chance to combine the study of architecture with more abstract courses in the visual arts, on such topics as light and color, space and volume, and visual communication...
...committee may suggest a direct merger of Arch Sci and Visual Studies under the name of Environmental Studies. To accomplish the merger, the committee would need the sanction of first the CEP and then the full Faculty...
Another alternative more likely at this point, would be to change the name of Arch Sci to Environmental Studies, while keeping the Visual Studies program technically discrete. The two fields would then gradually alter their curricula to prepare for a later merger...
Both Sekler and Szabo feel that the Visual Arts Committee is enthusiastic about the proposed combination. Critics have attacked the Arch Sci department in the past for being too pre-professional, too much of a training ground for the Graduate School of Design...