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...Before the Carpenter Center opened in 1963. Mirko and an assistant taught all design courses in an old bindery building on the site of what is now Peabody Terrace. In 1968. he joined with Eduard F. Sekler. professor of Architecture, Robert G. Gardner, and former chairman of the Architectural Sciences Department, Norman Newton, to build the undergraduate program which has become the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies...
...Mirko Basaldella, sculptor-in-residence and Director of Design Workshops at the Carpenter Center, died of a heart attack Monday night. He was 59 years old and had been working regularly at the VAC last week...
...Mirko was at home on all levels of abstraction in most artistic techniques." Sekler said yesterday. "He had an incredible richness of imagination, and whatever he saw he could turn into a work of art if he wanted...
...Mirko Basadella...
...Mirko's emphasis on direct emotion seems special in the context of the VAC's neo-Bauhaus superrationality. The way he develops his forms from his feelings is encouraging and refreshing for those tired of ubiquitous Form From Function