Word: vac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentrators took course after course at the VAC and added them to their Arch Sci credits. Up until now that was the closest you could come to majoring in Vis Stud. The Fine Arts Department would often give credit for VAC courses, but Arch Sci even taught the nitty gritty of its own basic requirements, Arch Sci 20-21, and 30-31, at the Carpenter Center...
Rudolf Arnheim, who will join the Faculty from Columbia University, next fall, will teach Visual Studies 100, the other new general introductory course for the field. Called "An Introduction to a Psychology of Visual Studies," it will be the first year-long survey course the VAC has ever offered. Arnheim is the author of Art and Visual Perception...
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...
Katayama came to Harvard in 1966 and has since been doing all the graphic and exhibition design at the VAC, as well as starting this year a course of his own on the theory and work-shop of graphic design, Vis Stud 136. He is shy about his command of English but need not be about the excellence of his work. His posters for the Center's lecture series and his exhibition designs in the hall on the third floor mark some of the finest work available in the greater Harvard area...
...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (left) is Le Corbusier's only building on this continent and Harvard's most exciting one. You can walk under and through the VAC three different ways without even getting inside. The only entrance is hidden from the street, under an overhang, and near the building's geometric center. Its combination of curved and planar surface screate a kind of dynamic visual movement few buildings have. Its axis is on a diagonal from Quincy St.; but the exterior has no "sides...