Word: designations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the panel discussion, Hugh Stubbins, architect for the Center, will describe the new theatre's technical equipment, such as the revolving stage and advanced lighting design...
...schools; it will pay for raising key professors to senior rank, financing faculty loans and summer fellowships, will set up 15 new professorships and help lure top engineers into teaching. The rest of the money goes into improving curriculums, notably for new programs (at Case, U.C.L.A.) that concentrate on design as a basic engineering discipline. Biggest beneficiary: M.I.T. ($9,275,000), now developing a curriculum focused on science-core courses that cut across traditional departmental lines. Ford thus hopes, explained Foundation President Henry T. Heald, to encourage engineering schools to impart "a thorough understanding of science and mathematics, their frontiers...
...joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused him deliberately to subordinate the hangings to the walls...
...favorite catchword of modern design-"Form follows function"-is nothing new, but the craftsmen of an old American religious sect put it more logically. To the Shakers it was: "Every force evolves a form...
...with so much modern design, even the best Shaker products are sometimes a bit chill. But their merging of severity and grace is unparalleled...