Word: ionic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Previous assumptions operated under the theory that the nitrogen atom forms a strong ionic bond with a counterion on the brain's target molecule...
...architectural fragments included in this show -- capitals and bases from the 10th century caliphal period, for instance -- one sees the forms of Roman antiquity dissolving into the Islamic taste for allover pattern; eaten away by deep carving, a recognizably Ionic capital turns into a web of exquisite stone lace, a sort of architectural counterpart to the deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful...
Amazing -- and not always, at the time, likable. His 1973 addition to Oberlin College's art museum has a checkerboard exterior and a comically oversize Ionic column inside. Outrageous! The molecular-biology lab at Princeton, designed in 1983, has a wild Argyle sheathing of bricks and oddly orientalized archways. Ridiculous...