Word: rusticating
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...After losing their weekend cabin in a fire, they began to envision a new house for the same site, a hill that overlooks the Pacific and a nearby marine-and-bird sanctuary. In a recent e-mail to TIME, they described what they had in mind from the outset: "rustic materials compatible with other homes in the community, [something] snuggled into the landscape, low impact on neighbors, no or low toxic impact on the carpenters, low impact on the site?spacious feeling without being big, cozy without being cramped...
...background, giving the dancers’ aggressive posturing a cartoonish quality. The standout performance of the evening was “Shelter,” a solo piece choreographed and performed by Marin J.D. Orlosky ’07, also a Crimson editor. Floating onstage in a rustic muslin skirt, Orlosky launched into a rapturous sequence of leaps and turns against a backdrop the color of the dawning sun. Antja Davelcot’s plaintive country-western ballad “Ravenland” played in the background, providing a perfect aural compliment to Orlosky’s passionate performance...
...addition is a 400-foot burlap ceiling, hiding the normal cobweb of lightbulbs and steel catwalks that gives “the Ex” its “experimental” feel. The ceiling, which took approximately ten hours to make and install, gives the stage the rustic feel of rural Spain...
...shuttle system. Little, however, is said about another method of transportation that is quite foreign to many Harvard students: walking. Pronounced “ooh-al-king” or “vhal-keeng,” depending on where you are from, this ancient and somewhat rustic method of transportation involves using one’s own legs to get from place to place. It became popular in Europe recently when, on account of increasing public concern about the environmental and health risks associated with increased pollution from automobiles, governments enacted harsh legislation to reduce the number...
...power of Yu's designs is the succinctness with which they communicate his ideas. His parks pair bushy tufts of native plants (which don't need to be watered or trimmed) with angular paths and minimalist sculptures in brightly-colored metal. The contrast between these rustic and futuristic elements is intended to attract people to the natural landscape, while changing it as little a possible. Yu studies the sites of his projects intensively before he starts planning and tries to work with what's already there?an approach he calls "anti-planning...