Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rudolph Arnheim's new course (V.S. 100 a,b), Introduction to a Psychology of Visual Studies: Perception and Expression in Art and Design. If his course is like his book, Art and Visual Perception, it will start with tension between two dots and go from there...
...Stud (formerly Arch Sci) 125, Design in the Visual Environment. Like Arnheim's it will be a lecture course taught, in this case, by two architects (Donald Freeman and Eduard Sekler) who will probably emphasize form, structure, and materials in modern buildings and city planning...
...Three terms of studio work--divided into either two terms of graphic design (V. S. 20, 21) and one of Light and Communication (photography, animation, film, etc.); or two terms of Light and Communication (V.S. 40), and one of graphic design...
...most courses the student is on his own to create and then deduce what he may. In studio courses both upstairs at the Carpenter Center in graphic design and downstairs in Light and Communication involve themselves almost exclusively in work on projects with most student-instructor discussion concerning technique rather than theory...
...also seems extraordinary that so many positions on the VAC Faculty are held by Europeans. If there is a compensating reason for this unusual balance (American design schools are not very good?) that reason isn't evident to the student. To him, it seems possible that importing instructors Europe might be another way of lending legitimacy to the department. But part of this might be due to the lingering influence of Walter Gropius, former dean of the Design School, and the Bauhaus school of thought...