Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upon an appropriate analogy--the role of the scientist in the University. Just as the experimental laboratory work of the scientist had become academically respectable, so artistic experimentation would become respectable. Art would be rid of its "mental inferiority" because it would be made intellectual. Professors would teach students design theory in a series of controlled experiments in the studio...
...department, Sekler recalls being asked "And what is the discipline of your department?" And even though the building had been constructed and in use for five years, it was not until 1968 that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences agreed to grant this new department of design the status of a concentration...
However, the CPVA itself was very much opposed to the idea of the Harvard student as a bohemian artist creating freely in the studio. They felt something had to be taught. And they agreed with the Brown report that it should teach design principles...
...feeling that Carpenter Center's role was to educate all Harvard students on visual matters. Underlying it was the belief that "visual illiteracy" accounted for much of the visual squalor present in the American environment, from its cities to its eating utensils. The task of the new design center was to make Harvard students more visually sensitive while they were still undergraduates. Then during their careers in business, industry, and government, when faced with decisions involving visual judment, they would be properly equipped to make them...
...inspiration of the new department was in part derived from the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus had as its core certain basic courses in the principles of design that included experiments in texture, color, and form of paper, and precluded the creation of works of art. One of the department's first Faculty members came from Illinois Institute of Technology, a Bauhaus that had been reconstituted in this country in the '40s. In addition, the CPVA was heavily composed of architects and architectural historians who were knowledgeable in the ways of the Bauhaus and undoubtably found them quite applicable to Harvard...