Word: modularness
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Even in an affluent middle-class suburb, the modern, modular, $1,500,000 medical building would stand out. Along its cool white corridors hangs a collection of paintings that phase from photographic realism to violent impressionism. But many of the paintings, done by artists living in the neighborhood the medical building serves, are tinged with bitterness against white authority and the Government. For the building is the new Watts Health Center, smack in the middle of "Charcoal Alley," scene of the fiery Negro riots...
...Port, an internally lit blue and transparent plastic piece by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and the giant slab of plastic Swiss cheese called Blue Dots by Noriyasu Fukushima have the same cleanness as Robert Morris' silvery series of knife-edged I-beams and Donald Judd's turquoise modular grids. All four works convey a feeling of openness and expansion, a common dedication to a spatial rhythm that can, in theory at least, be repeated to infinity...
...Modular, faintly suggestive of children's blocks, Smith's and Smithson's sculptures seem like statements in the vocabulary of boxy, urban housing. Yet in accentuating the negative, they make symbolism out of skeletal form. "Art needs more thought and less manual dexterity," says Smithson. "Nothingness isn't negative-the drive to reach the moon is a preoccupation with desolate nothingness. But it's involved with the idea of exploration." Their search is to find poetry in emptiness...
From such light senryu poetry, limited to 17 Japanese syllables, and their strictly modular architecture, down to the way farmers bundle hay as if it were a semiprecious material, the Japanese are artists to their fingertips, and their tight little island is a showcase for the crafts...
...should have been far more specific. In its own way the Arts Center was designed so that it would be a functional companion for man "harsh" and "raw" modifiers imply unfriendliness. And this building is not unfriendly at all. Le Corbusier's architecture is based on his own Modular System, a geometric proportion to the human figure, i.e. sixfoot man with hand upraised. In using this system of measurement his work is a derivitive of some of the best Greco-Roman and Renaissance architect-humanists who based their architecture on the proportions of the human figure as well. With their...