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...childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion in his divisions and compartments; not without reason did he call himself a "constructivist." What one sees in the boxes is not just memory, but the exact disposition of memory, an entrancingly just division of one's gaze between thought...
...Durgin, well, he doesn't mind the anonymity. The St. John high schooler from Lynn received feelers from Penn State, Pitt and Syracuse, but chose to play in the oft-derogated Ivies. "I have no regrets," says the son of a Villanova grid star. "The Ivy League is way ahead of the game. Even if I had never played a down of football, I would be happy here...
Those who scoff at the influence of football on life at a college should check out the concomitant increase in grid victories and application forms at Brown. In 1972, the Bruins went 1--8; in 1973, 4--3--1; and by 1976, they had soared to an 8--1 record and won a share of the Ivy League title for the first time ever...
...simplicity of the overall scheme--in plan, and later in elevation, the houses were based on a nine-square grid--allowed Hejduk to focus on detail. The spirit, and genius, of the study lies in the subtlety of the architect's persistent, Miesian attention to detail. Hejduk never breaks from the basic grid or initial program; he develops his ideas by adjusting column widths and positions, by fluctuating between compartmentalization and unification and by changing the relationship of part to part...
...Walls and roofs function as planes compressing space. Hejduk alleviates the tension within the box-like shape by puncturing the surface of the walls with glass windows or cutting away the roof to open courtyards. Hejduk also works at resolving the conflict between a symmetrical form (the nine-square grid) and the asymmetrical demands of a program for a functioning house. At first he conceals the asymmetries within the house; later, he reflects them onto the facades by arranging columns which echo interior walls...