Word: halle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capping off one end of the dining hall is the "stage," a raised portion of the dining hall blocked off by curtains on all sides and set against a mural that looks like the bastard offspring of a Picasso and a blender. The elementary school cafeteria-cum-auditorium look makes the stage the ultimate in public-private reconciliation, offering one of the most postmodern dining experience on campus (the Pforzheimer lovers balconyaside): the private, commensal experience of eating a meal becomes a dramatic public performance--life as an intermission between play acts...
...Quincy dining hall is what every Harvard student believes himself to be: overworked and underappreciated. Too many students take advantage of its proximity to the Yard (it's the closest viable option), making Quincy an ideal arena to stage the struggle between institutional necessity and residential comfort...
...place for House residents and public nexus of interhouse dining. Much of Japanese architecture struggles with combining the world of man and the world of man's environment (nature). Quincy picks up on this idea with the giant floor-to-ceiling windows that run the length of the dining hall: The privacy of the Harvard dining experience is integrated into its constantly visible environment--the University and the city...
...interior of the dining hall is itself a schizophrenic attempt to address three different realms of the dining experience, separated by giant ribbed columns (that appropriately echo the faux-bamboo of the other separating screens. The central area surrounded by the colonnade is the "public" space, where long tables do not encourage "gathering around" for shared commensality, and the prominence of the salad bar (and the way it violently disrupts the unified space) proves that this space is for eating, not chatting. The colonnade separates this from the "private" space, which is filled with individual tables that are each self...
...climactic "Fiddlefest" scene where Guaspari's students give a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in aims of saving their program, I was overwhelmed with the energy and excitement I felt alongside the characters. I was so involved with the characters, that by the end of the concert, I wanted to stand up and cheer. I didn't. But I wanted to (and the last thing that made me stand up and cheer, remember, were the Backstreet Boys...