Word: chiasma
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Holl's other signatures? One is a unique husbandry of space. Each building is not so much a discrete object as a complicated succession of vistas. He called his plan for the Helsinki museum "Chiasma," a Greek word for "intertwining." That describes how the museum's curving outer section enfolds a straighter-lined companion structure. It also refers to the complicated lines of sight and movement by which his intricate design reaches out to the surrounding streets. Moving among the museum's 25 galleries, visitors wind between the two portions and upward toward a concluding level of--what else?--sunlight...
...meet you at the chiasma of Dunster and Mt. Auburn...
...Junior plays with his building blocks, he can now learn the ABC's of post-modernism. A is for Aporia, B is for Barthes, C is for Chiasma. D, the most important letter in the alphabet of the nouveau ecriture, is for Dualism, Deconstruction, Dissemination, and of course, Derrida. And when Junior begins to put letters together to form a word (which we now call a logos), he has a whole new set of challenges ahead of him. For difference is now spelled differance, while the prefix 'meta' opens infinite new realms of meaning...
...Chiasma: intersection, crossroads...
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