Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intent at Porter Square is to provide station design that sensitively integrates art with architecture; not a series of isolated visual incidents or a gallery of selected "art works" within the station, but rather to consider the entire spatial experience as the sum of all the physical elements, thereby to create a humane environment. Cambridge Seven Associates, Architects...
...SEPTEMBER 1977, Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams announced that the Department of Transportation would encourage "good design, art and architecture in transportation facilities and services." Several months later, as part of this policy, the Urban Mass Transit Authority gave the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--the folks who've been trying to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square--$125,000 to develop one of four national pilot projects...
There is a bright spot. William P. Reimann's large, stone-cut sundial is strikingly handsome, a functional product of a fine sense of graphic design. Reimann's other work, a frog fountain, is a disappointment, however. The idea isn't all bad--when the pool is full, only the frog is visible; when it's empty, a "malevolent" turtle rises. Yet somehow it just doesn't belong outside a subway station. "The turtle and frog basin, Reimann explains, "attempts to combine creatures native to the region to provide one of several foci intended to organize a hierarchy of visual...
...progress is a risky idea, made worse when carelessly planned. Artists on the Line features some fascinating individual works spoiled by the failure of those in charge to integrate the artists' ideas. When Brock Adams announced his new policy, he noted that "an investment in the design of transportation can produce humane and pleasant places and improve the quality of out environment." If it's done right, maybe. But if the federal government learns anything from the fledgling Porter Square pilot project, it will hesitate before it lets its checkbook loose in Cambridge again...
...proposed increase at the Law School has not yet been approved by Harvard's governing boards and administrators at the Graduate School of Design have not yet announced next year's tuition...