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...favorite devices of surrealism, used incessantly from Max Ernst in the '20s to Joseph Cornell in the '40s. Nevelson gave it a unique density and gravity. She took the box's power as theater and subjected it to a constructivist rigor of formal layout. The past life of the wood pieces was still apparent: the nicks and flaws, the signs of use and disuse, all preserved and yet held at an emotional distance by the pall of black. But her instinct for placement, for what shapes to repeat and where to repeat them, and how to break...
...Aussie I have always admired the layout of our capital city, Canberra, which was designed by an American architect named Walter Burley Griffin in a worldwide competition in 1912. Then, two years ago, I visited Washington, D.C., designed by France's Pierre L'Enfant, and saw perfection in beauty, layout, transport, lakes and monuments [Nov. 10]. In 1979 I traveled to Paris and realized that Washington has the edge on them...
...replies. "I always hire him. He is very good. Whenever he approves of a building, the business does well in it. I don't understand it, but I do believe it. He can tell by looking at the layout of a place how the business will be." We drive for a little while as I mull over this statement of conviction...
Long, long before they decided to design the nation's capital city, the residents of Newtowne had come up with an idea that their city should be organized. Eliot, a former professor of Landscape Architecture and Plannig, says they designed a gridiron layout iwith a town center--a market place of sorts--where Winthrop Square stands today. Of the eight houses in the square, one was destined for Gov. Winthrop but it collapsed while under construction. Winthrop decided to stay in Boston...
Winter conditions had also dictated moving up the tee markers to shorten the course. ("You could have thrown it around," Arnold remarked.) But the layout is also wide open, which allowed the wind to wreak havoc on the dimpled spheroid...