Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wald, professor of Biology, wrote in the report on the Visual Arts at Harvard (the Brown Report of 1956), that "what divides man from the beast is knowing and creating." He pointed out that "it is man in his aspect of knowing that we find enshrined in the university...
Since World War II, the integral parts of Le Corbusier design have consisted of pillar foundations, glass walls, sun breaks, roof terraces, and schemes free from orthodox, exterior influences. The Visual Arts Center unites all of these basic factors...
...building appears in the designs which Le Corbusier submitted for the Palace of the Soviets in 1931, and was previously included in the Savoye Villa of Poissy, France. The interplay of levels which has come to characterize many of Le Corbusier's recent buildings is largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort of way in the sweeping slant of its ramp...
...RECENT visitor to Harvard observed that the new Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts "looked out of place." Uncomfortably squeezed between the stately Fogg Museum and the Faculty Club, the Le Corbusier building does seem to be fighting for room and a place in the University...
...glamorous and powerful monument to an idea frozen to death by a chilly Harvard atmosphere. The building did not appear overnight, but during the long period of its construction and planning few conclusions were reached on a program for the Center. Only a handful of courses in the visual arts will be offered next Fall, and even these seem to be largely experimental ventures, without a coherent program to guide them or indicate further classes...