Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRANSPARENCY will revitalize interior space. Glass was okay for coffee tables in houses without small children or large dogs. But Plexiglas is lighter, stronger and breakage resistant (so much so that the Boston Garden uses large sheets of it behind goal-post areas to protect spectators from flying pucks...
Pieces like Jacques Famery's Plexiglas arm chair are magic invisible furniture. They hold a body but eyes pass through them. Eiffel's tower and Paxton's Crystal Palace introduced a new kind of building where space flowed through instead of stopping at the walls. And Plexiglas furniture changes the interior from an organization of volumes in space to a mere description of space drawn with light patterns of color and reflection...
...addition to Biology, the Physics and Chemistry departments will have large blocks of space for undergraduate laboratories in the new Center. Both the Math and Statistics departments will move en mass to the biulding while Astronomy and Geology departments will each have small areas...
With a floor space of about 290,000 square feet, the Science Center will be larger than Holyoke Center. Jose L. Sert, Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design, will submit his preliminary designs for the Center in about a month. Sert also designed Holyoke Center
...seems they will still be able to use space in college buildings. The whole question of whether they will remain seems dependent on academic departments agreeing to teach military courses," he said...