Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson could have convinced the Titanic's passengers that hitting an iceberg, though unplanned and unfortunate, would eventually lead to valuable improvements in navigation and ship design...
That much of the artistic fallout into fashion and decor-from op dresses and psychedelic posters to Andy Warhol soup-can glasses and kitchen design-is by nature transitory does not bother him. Using art as home decoration, he argues, "gives it a broader base." Nor is he overly moved by critics such as Clement Greenberg, who laments that too-happy acceptance of the new has killed the tradition of the avantgarde. Greenberg complains that the days of the great innovators are gone, that pop, op and minimal are not true avant-garde art, but merely "novelty art." The only...
Sert has also worked to make the Design School a national leader in "urban design," a phrase which he belives was coined here. For the past 11 years, Harvard has annually hosted international urban design conferences, "in an attempt," Sert says, "to bridge the gap between city planning and architecture...
Under the leadership of the Spanish-born architect, the School of Design has expanded in 15 years from 170 students to 270, and from a faculty of under 20 to more than 60. The school's endowment has more than doubled, the yearly budget has been quadrupled, and the amount of money in outside grants has increased about tenfold...
...Changes in the Design School must parallel changes in life," Sert said. "With congestion, pollution, and unfit housing in our cities, the architect must team with a cleaned-up waterway--and visions of the utopian sewer society of the future looms before his listeners...