Word: cloisters
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...across the narrowest part of the nave toward an upper chapel, so that in effect the nave's long dimension becomes a transept, terminated east and west by smaller altars. Architect Michelucci has also departed from custom by en folding the narthex, or entrance portico, in a gentle cloister; the church swallows its own entrance. The whole is asymmetrical, forcing the worshiper into the relaxed mood Michelucci wanted. As he says, "This church is a little city in which men should meet and recognize in each other the common hope of finding each other again...
...stops appreciatively on the massive, floating box-and-cloister of Charles Luckman's United States pavilion, and disapprovingly on Bell Telephone's flying wing, which looks more like a big hunk of sedimentary rock than an airfoil. The three-acre building that houses General Motors' Futurama ends in one gigantic tail fin, which may be good as advertising but is ridiculous as architecture. The boldest structure at the fair is Architect Philip Johnson's New York State pavilion: 16 tremendous columns support an elliptical roof of colored plastics that is larger than a football field...
...once and for all the reign of red brick at the Quad. In exchange for an investment of $4.5 million and the death of three off campus houses, the Center's planners promise to mix the latest intricacies of library technology with "the serene mood of a medieval cloister," to combine an environment for instense individual study with facilities for relaxation and group discussion, and to provide a pleasant meeting place for students and faculty...
Gibson plans to cloister his squad this weekend at a training camp in Jackson, New Hampshire. He feels that with a little more practice his team can finish among the top five at the Williams Carnival Feb. 28 and 29, and thus qualify for the NCAA championships at Dartmouth in March...
...play moves like a storm between two anchoring calms. It begins in the cloistered serenity of a monastery in 1506, as Brother Martin kneels in submissive piety to receive the monk's habit of the Augustinian Order of Eremites. It ends 21 years later in a secularized cloister in Wittenberg with the married Luther, his fierce fires banked in domesticity, cradling his infant son as he walks the night much like any other father. In between are the earthquake blows with which Luther split the earthly crust of Christendom...