Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wright's house anticipated the contemporary search for an affordable, compact home design that fits today's lifestyle of working parents and kitchen entertaining. Wright claimed to have designed more than a hundred of these houses, to which he applied Samuel Butler's term Usonian (derived from the initials U.S.). Their architecture was intended to embody the spirit of democracy as Wright saw it, a spirit of close-to-nature individualism and hearth-centered family life. The exterior of the two-bedroom house shows mostly an unassuming brick wall. It has no attic, porch or basement...
...which museum has the Raphaels and where they serve good veal? In a radical approach to the genre, a two-year-old Los Angeles publishing company named AccessPress Ltd. has, under the guidance of its founder, Architect-Cartographer Richard Saul Wurman, 49, reinvented the wheel with a series of compact volumes that open up cities through striking graphics, terse copy and a tight format...
Mudd Library features taller stacks with narrower aisles, a big space saver, and Yale has also installed compact shelving in its Divinity School library. But Mudd can only take another 500,000 books, which isn't enough to solve the space problem in the rest of its various buildings...
...directors of Duke University's 3.2 million volume system plan to add a new building for all science books or possibly a storage building on the Durham. N.C. campus. Most of its books--about two million--are in the major Perkins Library, but Duke has begun building compact storage facilities for science volumes such as old academic journals, and has moved an initial 5000 volumes into the compact shelving...
...League leader in compact shelving definitely seems to be Princeton, which last spring added a second annex library with compact shelving to hold 500,000 books. The newer annex, in the basement of Fine Hall, the mathematics building, complements the now half-full 400,000 volume capacity Smith Library, which is located four miles away from the main campus...