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...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...
...places like New York City and Boston to dominate and define the cultural and intellectual life of our country. Here in the Seattle area, we have many excellent bookstores. We have a nationally recognized repertory theater company. We have an art museum designed by the noted architect Robert Venturi. I am sure it is stuffed with many excellent objets d'art too, although I haven't actually had the time to visit it just...