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...selecting the library for one of seven awards in the college library division, the jury commented that its design "creates a quiet, intimate atmosphere appropriate to its use." The architectural layout of the library produces "an interesting spatial arrangement with two high-rise dormitories and a center of interest in this building group," the jury continued. The library was designed by Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbot...
...cornerstone for abstract art. With his friend Van Doesburg he founded the magazine De Stijl, and, as shown here, spread the gospel of color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through...
...preoccupation with spatial harmony and with the distortions he used to achieve it, there was nothing cold or seemingly calculated about Weber's art. "Distortion should be born of a poetic impulse," he said. His war scenes, his paintings of workers, the face of an old rabbi could be cries of pain-as much a "search for fundamentals" as the magic key to design. "Art is the real history of nations," Weber said. "Their politics, their wars, their commerce are but records, as the calendar or the clock is not time itself...
...median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression," and he should treat it as "a sculptural form in its own right...
...language skills are unimpaired. He can still write; he can reset his wrist watch. After a mild right-side stroke, the patient may have no paralysis, but only what neurologists call "silent impairment"-a vague depression, believed to result from a blunting of sensory awareness, and in judgment of spatial relations. He does not become overanxious. But he is likely to complain endlessly about his food or the hospital routine. And the dulling of his sensitivity may make him careless of toilet habits. Worst of all, this patient, with supposedly less crippling damage, lacks the strong motive to retrain himself...