Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some lucky stars. Ordinarily, it would have cost some $150,000 for the telescope alone. Before long, Bruce Weaver, 28, was able to talk Princeton University into providing-on "indefinite loan"-a 36-in. mirror for the reflecting telescope. An astronomer at Lick Observatory near San Jose volunteered to design the instrument free of charge, and a Los Angeles metal fabricator has agreed to build it at cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope. The biggest gift came two weeks...
...Bauhaus, that pedagogic test bed of total design that started in Weimar 55 years ago and was shut down by Hitler in 1933, now seems almost as remote as William Morris' workshop or Verrocchio's studio. It has become part of the "golden legend" of modernism. Except for Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, the chief Bauhaus teachers of art, design and architecture are dead: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe. Even the ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems...
...aesthetic testament of the Bauhaus, nevertheless, is still with us. It has impregnated our whole sense of design. Moreover, it remains embodied in the work of several Bauhaus students who have turned out to be major artists. One of these is Max Bill, who was born in Switzerland and spent two years at the Dessau Bauhaus before returning to Zurich...
Carpenter Center is presenting an exciting show of current poster-type art, which they call "Graphic Design, a Kinetic Presentation of Contemporary Trends." It's a continuously showing 1 and 1/2 hour long slide show, open Tues.-Sat. from 1-6, until Nov. 27 in the main exhibition hall...
Lawton said that when the design of the dormitory was changed after construction began to meet "long-range uses," costs went...