Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...format of the design courses during the first few years of the Center's existence consisted of a series of assigned exercises that were intended to clarify certain principles of design. They dealt with such problems as the interaction of color, figure-ground relationships, the modulation of a two-dimensional surface, and color transparencies...
Conveniently enough, there already existed a series of basic design courses taught as part of the undergraduate concentration of architectural sciences. The Arch Sci department occupied a small building by the Charles River. Since this concentration was to be phased out and gradually replaced by courses in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), the obvious thing to do was to make its courses the core curriculum for the new Carpenter Center. And in fact, when Carpenter Center offered its first program in 1963, approximately half of its courses had been taken over from the old Arch Sci department...
...crisis was not long in forthcoming. Students who had no intention of being artists most likely found it a great deal of fun to take an introductory design course and do assigned exercises with color-aid paper and tongue-depressors. Yet the VES concentrators themselves began to express real dissatisfaction...
...result, a group of concentrators drafted a letter last year to certain VES Faculty. They complained that at Carpenter they found" 'art' being taught as 'design' in a series of experiments." The letter went on to say that although courses on color theory and the psychology of art were offered, there were no courses in painting, sculpture, etching, or on the economic and moral position of the artist. They wanted to see art "taught by artists, not architects, designers, art historians, or Harvard graduates from other fields...
...department is now considering a large introductory lecture course, VES 1, in order to expand its offerings for the non-VES concentrator. The course would be comparable to Fine Arts 13 and would introduce students to a range of concerns from a small-scale visual analysis to an environmental design project. It is tentatively scheduled...