Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only does the Department of Architectural Sciences prepare one directly for the Graduate School of Design, but it also gives students of Fine Arts with a creative bent their only opportunity to express themselves, as the principal emphasis falls on understanding the meaning of design rather than on actual construction techniques. This comparatively young field has also the most radical set-up offered to undergraduates, several of the courses being exam-less...
...focal point of the field centers in the able hands of "Sam" Hershey, who, in Arch.Sci. 2a and 2b, has the most difficult task of cultivating a sense of design and a feeling for form and space, using paper, scissors, pencil, paint, clay, plaster, wire, and innumerable other materials to achieve the goal. Dean Hudnut presents the history of architecture from Egyptian times to the present in a singularly unpedantic way in courses...
Arch.Sci. 3 and Engin. Sci. 7b, architectural drafting and structural mechanics respectively, lead up to Arch.Sci. 10, taken by Seniors, which actually involves building design and may be taken as the equivalent of Architecture 2a in the Graduate School. Frost, in charge of 10, is excellent and extremely well-liked...
...books selected from the 631 submitted by 148 publishers in the United States, which were judged best from the point of view of their physical excellence. In making their choices, the jury, consisting of three representatives of the publishing world, considered such factors as the material design, the legibility and attractiveness of the page, the use of color and illustrations, the typographic design throughout, and the artistic conception and cohesion of the whole...
Among the books included in the exhibition are the best sellers: "The Epicure in Imperial Russia," "The White Cliffs," "The Flowering of New England," and "Saroyan's Fables." However, the literary content of the books was considered only as it related to the problems of typographic design and production...