Word: farnsworth
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Faculty members who frequent the Signet for lunch and tea include Kenan Professor of History and Literature John L. Clive, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus Elliot Forbes, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Mason Hammond, and Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth Room and Woodberry Poetry Room in Harvard College Library David T.W. McCord...
Mies, meanwhile, was taking the logic of the empty architectural box to its unnatural extreme in the U.S. His campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology is a grove of steel ectoskeletons, essentially giant one-room buildings. The Farnsworth House (1951), a planar H-beam box floating over a floodplain outside Chicago, was Mies' last modest building, and the most affectingly American one. (Alas, his project for an Indiana fast-food stand never got built.) Farnsworth looks like a house, just barely. After it came almost nothing but true Miesian "universal space": high-rises, modeled on his twin apartment slabs...
...MOMA exhibit does show off Mies' absolute strengths. Like Sir Isaiah Berlin's hedgehog, he had one big idea, and he thought it all the way through. No architect since has done work of such internal coherence. The openness of buildings like Farnsworth is bracing. His best designs have a simplicity that stuns, the kind of elemental integrity now sought by many younger architects, the post-postmodernists. Like millions of self-conscious moderns, though, Mies tended to equate a kind of compulsive candor with Truth. Asymmetry, architectural ornament and symbol were deemed dishonest, sentimental. His idea of order...
...gave the tickets away in two batches, half [yesterday] and the others [today], as we did not expect to run out of them right away," said Sarah W. Farnsworth, a forum coordinator...
...energetic curator of Harvard's Farnsworth and Woodberry Poetry Rooms at Lamont Library. Haviaras says he feels most closely in touch with his "life-fluids" at night, when he prefers to write. For years he has been filling his spare hours writing poetry and fiction, and this month Simon and Schuster published his second English novel. The Heroic...