Word: utilitarian
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...When its utilitarian function reaches optimum refinement," art critic and historian Sir Herbert Read said last night. "Then its form begins to react to spiritual needs...
JOHN ANDERSON-Stone, 48 East 86th. Formerly a logger, this Pratt Institute instructor of sculpture now whittles on his own. Newel posts, finials and bobbins sprout all over his abstract trees or tumble from his table-top cornucopias. These carpenterlike sculptures have a deceptively utilitarian look, like tools and toys for Paul Bunyan, but they are exquisitely appealing. Through...
...that. And the rich are asking for and getting bathrooms with pool-type tubs, wall-to-wall carpeting, mirrored ceilings, arched canopies, private patios, and sometimes a picture-window view. In these circles, the bathroom is no longer thought of in its puritan context as strictly (and slightly shamefully) utilitarian, but as a sybaritic place of permitted indolence and luxury...
...Carpenter Center at Harvard, as well as the principle government buildings in Chandigarh and the chapel of Ronchamp, show an attention to sculpturesque form, which clashes with strictly utilitarian considerations. This view of buildings as sculpture, though, is a development of another consistent strain in Le Corbusier's thought: architecture as the "masterly, correct and magnificent play" of primary forms -- spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, and pyramids. This attention to form is evident even in his very first work, a house designed for his art teacher...
...attitude toward college. To her, the experience of Harvard-Radcliffe is most important for "the infinite opportunities it offers." She sees college primarily as a set of doors to be utilized, rather than a self-sufficient milieu. And so she chooses to compliment another girl by giving her some utilitarian and unfeminine attribute: like "brilliant," "down to earth," "conscious," "alive," or "great" and the like...