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Robert Bell, an architect based in Washington, says the metamorphosis of the kitchen also relates directly to our ability to afford leisure and space. "Over the years, the kitchen has been influenced by places like the beach house, where people go to play and relax, that have always used the big-room design," says Bell. "People say, 'I like that,' and so they just brought it into their own homes...
Hometown: Pam Beach Gardens...
...undergraduate years during the early 1990s, Hill had no lack of fun. He recalls shooting water guns from his windows straight up so that his victims would not know who had shot them. He and his roommates also sat in their room kicking a beach ball so that it would never hit the floor. “We could play that for two and a half hours,” he says...
...Hill wonders whether current Harvard students would lazily kick a beach ball to procrastinate. “Is there spontaneity in student life today?” he wonders. In search of invitations to tour current students’ rooms, he put up posters last spring asking, “Do you love your dorm room?” He was surprised by how intensely students organize their lives and how dominated they are by technology...
...show, Newman tacked up a notice telling the public to stand up close to his big paintings. "There is a presence opposite yourself - in some cases 20 times as big as you are," Temkin explains. "Like when you're looking out at the ocean sitting on the beach: there is its hugeness and there is you. Newman was trying to recreate that, not by painting an ocean but by purely abstract means." Like Stonehenge, his works inspire a sense of uncanniness that can't be readily explained away...