Word: purism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos...
...Dalai Lama cooled toward Shugden is debated. Some cite the influence of the state oracle, a deity who speaks to Tibetan leaders through a monk in a trance state. Less exotically, the Shugdenites' purism hinders the High Lama's attempts to unify the Tibetan diaspora by reducing differences among its four main Buddhist schools. The Dalai Lama told TIME that he was worried about people's seeking "external help" from a protector spirit while neglecting Buddha's teaching of compassion and wisdom: "Some people worship toward [Shugden] almost equal with the Buddha. That's a disgrace...