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...Visual and Environmental Studies (some people have started circulating the new nick-name "Envy Stud"). The members of the department consider it a human and social determinant (like psychology or economics), not just an aesthetic. "Changes in man's physical environment usually have visual consequences," writes Eduard Sekler, new chairman of the department and director of the Carpenter Center. "Visual communication tends to impinge more and more on the physical environment and to modify...
What the potential concentrator ought to remember is that while the importance of the study is sociological, he will be working on aesthetics in the studio. This is what Professor Sekler is talking about, I think, when he says the major is for people with "a special interest and commitment and the necessary capabilities. Candidates will definitely be screened...
...Sekler, who has held his VAC post since 1963, was born in Vienna, studied at the Warburg Institute of London University, and received his Ph. D. in 1948. He received an honorary M.A. from Harvard...
Before coming to the United States to study as a Fulbright Fellow in 1953, Sekler taught seven years at the Technische Hochschule, and holds the little of professor extraordinarius there...
...Sekler said that he expects Albert Szabo, current chairman of the Department of Architecture, to become associate chairman of the new department and head tutor...