Word: geometricized
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A series of watercolors that follows the European kings' portraits shows the influence Western Europe had on this Eurasian art. While a great many of the geometric patterns and bright colors which distinguish Islamic art are still present, it is evident through the number of scenes of daily life that...
Apart from his philosophical disinclination to build behemoths, it is hard to imagine Holl producing anything so large that he could not personally fret over every detail. The walls he designed for one apartment, for instance, tilt for arcane aesthetic reasons at precisely 4 degrees. Given the chance, Holl designs...
But beneath the surface of brightly colored geometric figures, the house has experienced a week of conflict, as residents divided over the best ways to express the community's tolerance of different sexual orientations.
"You start out with simple concepts," he remarks. To illustrate his point, he pauses to sketch a symmetrical, snowflake-like geometric figure composed of intersecting right triangles. "All of this beautiful edifice of geometry, for example, comes out of this configuration of lines and points."
Child-development specialists point out that it is difficult to assess a small child's mental abilities, because they are constantly evolving. "It's simply a bad time to be testing," says David Elkind, professor of child study at Tufts University. A youngster who cannot recognize a square one week...