Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Angelica is a finely drawn priss. The animation is distinctive and supple, suggesting Max Fleischer and the Modernist Zagreb school. Who thought to give the kids' heads the shape and apparent consistency of grapefruit? Who unleashed the hyperkinetic floor-level kidcam? Someone with a smart sense of design...
Meier was still working in the office of Marcel Bruyer in 1969 when he was approached and asked to design a house for a plot of land in Connecticut, along the Long Island Sound. Meier used this example from his early work to indicate issues which have been a persistent concern for him. He emphasized repeatedly, in reference to various buildings, his attempts to integrate each construction with its particular environment...
...Museum of Decorative Arts, a zoning restriction which divided the building into five-story and seven-story sections led to the inclusion of a large, delineated window (filled with space not glass) on one side of the building. This odd appendage later evolved into a characteristic feature of the design and symbol of the museum. His 1986 Stadthaus in Ulm, Germany was only built after a tenth referendum finally approved its construction. The building was intended to replace an area used for parking in front of the historic Gothic cathedral there and act as a center for the town...
Richard Meier's design is, admittedly, a drastic departure from that of the traditional Gothic Cathedral which had previously served a similar unifying purpose, but his building acknowledges this issue by referring to the cathedral in his own work. The Cathedral is omnipresent throughout the Stadthaus because it can be seen at all times through the skylights...
Whether a student is interested in architecture or not, the speakers at the Graduate School of Design are generally worth listening to. My only advice would be, unless you do not mind sharing breathing space with a stranger, to arrive early...