Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the spare, delicate, geometrical results of Bauhaus workshop experiments in wood, metals, textiles, glass and color. Few could stand alone as impressive works of art, but the best proof of Bauhaus importance lay in the field to which all its experiments were, in theory, preliminaries: architecture and industrial design. Examples: tubular and wood furniture, frosted glass and metal lamps, pottery and other useful goods made in the '20s, which no U. S. manufacturers yet surpass; advanced photography done by or under the direction of Bauhaus Instructor Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy; the second Bauhaus building at Dessau by Founder-Director...
...much do de luxe publishers contribute to the cause of literature? They give esthetic pleasure to a few genuine book lovers, a big boost to the technique of book design. But mainly they still thrive on snob appeal. There is probably one chance that de luxe publishers may genuinely further the cause of contemporary letters-if The Derrydale Press should discover a writer who writes half as well as he handles guns and fishing rods...
Concentrators will be advised to take two courses in each of the following: the history of architecture and of planning, the theory and practice of design, and architectural design. Regular college courses suggested are English 1, History 1, Mathematics A, and Economics A in the Freshman year; Philosophy B, and Physics C in the Sophomore; and Geology L in the Senior year
...past, many students in the College, expecting to enter the School of Design after graduation, have taken courses in the physical sciences, design, and the fine arts. Such curricula are to be placed in charge of a group of instructors more specifically interested in the objectives to which they are addressed...
...opinion of the Faculty of Design, the architectural education now offered at Harvard is superior to that in any other university. When the new arrangement goes into effect, the School of Design will assume the character of a laboratory in which the students, being already familiar with the scientific concepts and essential processes of the several arts of design, will devote themselves to the development of professional aptitudes...