Word: mayers
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According to Mayer, HMS started to review its affirmative action policy in late...
...It’s well-intentioned, but we’ve been told repeatedly by the University counsel and consultants for the University counsel that it is not a wise policy to maintain,” said Dr. Robert J. Mayer, faculty associate dean for admissions at HMS, yesterday...
...stood out, in a sense, as a contrast to Harvard College, the Law School, the Business School, and all the other medical schools in the country,” Mayer said. “It’s an internal adjustment in the way that the process takes place, so as not to make the Medical School and the University in general vulnerable to any outside forces...
...other thing: the city authorities did not specify what kind of structure they had in mind. That created a very large opening for Jrgen Mayer H., a Berlin-based architect who understands that a solid structure can be a thought balloon. What Mayer, 42, proposed was a series of six voluptuous forms made of high-strength laminated wood that would rise above the plaza like massive mushrooms--or shade trees. Or maybe they're umbrellas. Whatever you think they look like, the Metropol Parasol, as they are officially called, refuses to be one thing--or to serve one purpose...
...Mayer says most of the inspiration for the project, which is expected to be completed next year, came "from outside of architectural terms. We jumped from mushrooms to trees to clouds." There's not a right angle in any of those. Like Antoni Gaud's Parc Gell in Barcelona, with its swelling plazas and ribboning pathways, the Parasol emerges from a place where architecture meets the unconscious, a source outside the merely rational faculties, one that gives rise to whatever is soft, concupiscent and shape-shifting...