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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...
...Photography in the Carpenter Center (he teaches the highly popular Vis Stud 140); Robert G. Gardner '48, presently making movies in Africa, is the director of the Film Study Center in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Derek Lamb is a lecture on Light and Communication at the VAC; and Eric Martin '58 is a lecturer on Visual Studies. Freeman himself as an assistint professor of Design...
...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...
...Rome be built in a day? VAC official Eduard Sekler notes that all the existing masterpieces of urban design have evolved over a period of centuries, and before the advent of the elevator. Harvard Professor Willo von Moltke demonstrates, however, that Sekler's chief criteria--proportion, symbolic placement of essential buildings, "visual continuity," and reasonable traffic flow--can be employed in designing a new city (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela). Both articles are effectively illustrated...
...large group centers around the VAC; these, for the most part, are newcomers to the scene. They are not quite aware yet of the opportunities for publishing, exhibiting, and landing lucrative assignments. Many aren't interested...