Word: venturi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...descending solo clarinet figure. This line, which was unfortunately marred by a bad note, fell, as if from the heavens, to the pure tones of the unaccompanied quartet intoning the "Et incarnatus..." The Credo ended on a lighter note with a playful fugue on the text of "Et vitam venturi saeculi," (and the life of the world to come.), inspired by Bach's similar usage in his Mass in b minor. Brewer and Clemont's capricious interplay, along with the matching figures in the winds, added a touch of lightheartedness to contrast with the introspective mood of the Credo...
...with Cincinnati, and Jim Mora, who quit the same week in New Orleans, and seven coaches who started the season are now out. Bruce Coslet replaced Shula, went 7-2 and signed a new four-year deal, but the Saints are looking for a new coach after Rick Venturi, the professional interim coach, went...
...Robert Venturi, the architect for Memorial Hall renovations, and the great theorist of American Architecture in the second half of this century (Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Los Vegas), has had a long-term fascination with American popular culture and with contained excess. He's looking, I suppose, for that distinctive element in American vulgarity that isn't vulgar-and hopes, I think, to create in Loker Commons an architecture that avoids either kitsch or Harvard-Square-trendy good taste. The space has an almost stolid we've-been-here-forever loft-like feel to it, with...
...Venturi's use of color and light is risky, because it depends on things he can't control. It's not the space that is lit, but what's in it. Much of the light has a kind of sparkle or pixillation. It reflects off the colored food packages stacked behind the counter (still visible at night even when the screens are pulled down), it comes from down-lighting bouncing off the food on the tables, and from clothing and faces. It comes from the random accumulation of multicolored notices on the bulletin boards placed the whole length...
...signs. Talk about pixillation! These are sparkle, ephemera and coming and going, taken all the way. Upstairs in Annenberg Hall, there is text and patterned color in the stained glass windows. Iconography and cultural content chosen with confidence by a single generation and there forever. Downstairs, Venturi's LED signs continue the theme, but with a twist. Text, colors, cultural content and iconography in constant tradition; millenial energy and uncertainty. The movement of the LEDs, surprisingly, is what keeps the place dynamic; turn them off and the space deadens. But what they need is participation and inventiveness and a sense...