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"Chairs, for example, create rigid environments," explains Thomas Luckey, 31, a New Haven environmental architect. "Because chairs are in fixed locations, they limit your options as to where to sit." In most rooms that Luckey and his colleagues design, conventional furniture is replaced by lumps, bumps and other more or...
COMMUNICATION CUBE. A group of designers at California State College in Long Beach has designed a "communication cube" that replaces all the furniture in a small room. It stands 7 ft. on a 3-ft. module and has adjustable horizontal and vertical partitions. Up to nine people can sit in...
THE LIBERATING CUBE. Functional Ken Isaacs, an architecture instructor at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus, believes that environments offer a means of liberation. "Too many guys," he says, "are imprisoned in and by their $40,000 homes. Like my students, they might find liberation in a 4-ft...
The skull-bound argument iterates, and there is no resolving it. For the half-beguiled, half-annoyed, unyoung straight reader, Richard Brautigan's gentle, shaggy little books have in them much of what is both very nice and too easy about the kid culture: its music, its mobility, its...
The man from Moscow's Literary Gazette was putting some questions to an official of the State Planning Commission. Russia's 1971-75 five-year plan had just been made public, and because it called for a higher growth rate in consumer goods than in heavy industry for...