Word: wood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution...
...Center. Actually, the times have changed more than Aalto. His use of traditional materials-wood, brick, copper-and rough textures now seems a welcome antidote to too much slickness and gloss. Aalto still insists as firmly as ever: "Architecture-the real thing-is only to be found when man stands in the center...
...himself has blazed a trail without raising an army of followers; he has created a style without founding a school. He stands alone, as solitary as his bronze image (see color) rising above a lonely Scottish moor, as unique as one of his strong and sweepingly molded figures of wood or stone, recognizable yet unfamiliar, warm yet discomfiting, partly abstract and groping for answers to the mystery: What...
...that a savage artist would recognize. The swelling curves of a woman also suggested the surge of a hillside, the texture of water-shaped stones. The figures swallowed the light here, emitted it there, and a viewer walked away feeling that he had seen stone or wood or bronze touched with life...
...that four years at college fails to stimulate thought on the Big Questions--after-life, the meaning of existence, man's role in the universe. The College, however, does not attempt to answer these Questions; teachers, in Raphael Demos's phrase, may lead students into the wood and leave them to find their own way out. Classroom discussion and reading, plus contact with other faiths, definitely bolster religious questioning. For many Protestants, the result may be temporary agnosticism, but for others it may bring renewed understanding built on a previously existing basis of faith...