Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert A. Bowyer, director of the Cambridge Department of Planning and Development, estimated yesterday that the final station location and line extension will take eighteen months to design and about three years to build. Bowyer predicted that the project will be completed...
...Graduate School of Design is featuring a display on "The Evolution of Housing Concepts: 1870-1970" in the lobby of its home at Gund Hall. The exhibit, co-sponsored by the New York State Urban Development Corporation and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, is composed of models and drawings on the history of high-density housing projects, and it includes descriptions of works by leading international figures such as Le Corbusier. All of this may sound rather dry and pedological, but GSD exhibitions are almost always well produced...
...seated nostalgia for the furniture, music, and clothing of the 1930's, the technical staff (David Sackeroff and Mary Harkins) has outdone itself with the assistance of several of Boston's antique stores and collectors. The uncluttered sets, a French summer hotel terrace and a Paris flat, are well-designed, lighted, and integrated into the Tufts theater-in-the-round. The sets' simple, though exactingly realistic, design coupled with the constant turning and motion of the actors take maximum advantage of the theater's comfortable environment. The props were perhaps too realistic: at the play's conclusion, a small group...
...agreement to share heart research, including the design of synthetic cardiac valves and the development of artificial hearts...
...Busch-Reisinger, Harvard's Germanic museum, will be showing the work of Josef and Anni Albers through mid-August. The Albers have exceptionally fine modern craftsmen who contributed vastly to the Bauhaus's enduring reputation as the bastion of contemporary design. Josef is represented in the Busch's exhibit by paintings, lithografs, wallpaper and photographs. Anni's work includes weaving samples and textile design paintings...