Word: whiteness
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...grid, modernism's elemental unit. For starters, Eisenman has lined up the building with the Columbus city grid rather than the campus grid -- an off- kilter tilt of 12 1/4 degrees. Within the complex, he has laid down still more grids to play with: the 12-ft. modules of white steel scaffolding, structural columns set 24 ft. apart, decorative columns 48 ft. apart. He lets these various grids overlap and collide, creating quirky niches and three- dimensional geometric cat's cradles everywhere. Inside, the experience of architectural structure is nearly kinetic: as you enter, a fake beam shoots past...
What is the point of all this highly wrought architectural scribbling and juxtapositioning? Why, in a single glimpse, is there brick, tinted glass, clear glass, white glass, white metal panels, white steel, white stone, concrete and red stone? Because to pull off such an improbable collage is a virtuoso feat -- Eisenman is like a chess master playing several games at once while standing on his head. Because the dense, dense eclecticism of material and form prevents the place from seeming too slick and self-serious. And - because Eisenman remains rather perverse. The four painting and sculpture galleries, for instance, amorphous...
...Eisenman has finally allowed himself to learn the most enduring lesson of his old postmodern nemeses: the necessity of fitting in with nearby buildings, even the motley, uninspiring ones. Wexner, tucked between off-white masonry buildings, is clad partly in white limestone, and for all its coming- apart-at-the-seams wildness, the building is actually rather low-key, never overwhelming its campus. "We're on the short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint...
...fact, the deal had been reviewed in the White House by the National Security Council and approved by George Bush, who had been urging the State Department to press ahead in the complicated claims-settlement process. At his press conference last week the President admitted to a hope that the agreement would eliminate a further obstacle to cooperation by the Iranians. "I'd like to get this underbrush cleaned out now," he said. "I hope they will do what they can to influence those who hold these hostages...
Events like that make the White House think Rafsanjani cannot yet deliver even if he wants to. "We're continuing behind the scenes to try to follow ; certain rabbit trails," the President said last week. "So far, they've ended up at dead ends." Earlier this month U.S. intelligence sources reported rumors that the hostages would be released on the anniversary of the embassy seizure. That hope also proved false. Now Americans must wait to see if the agreement in the Hague will amount to a further move in the hostage game, or just another dead...