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Central place in the undergraduate program belongs to the workshop courses in drawing and design fundamentals at the Design Center on Memorial Drive. The courses have proven so popular that they are to a large extent responsible for the increased number of concentrators, now over one hundred, according to the Dean. Furthermore they have attracted so many non-concentrators--about one-third of the classes--an additional instructor has been hired...
Direction of the workshop rests with Mirko Basldella, noted Italian artist who joined the Department two years ago. Under his guidance students experiment with the properties of line, color, texture and the various media. The courses are not directed to architectural design but are rather concerned with having the student gain experience with "the fundamentals of design" in its widest sense; and consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree...
...importance assigned by the GSD to workshop type courses is evident from its desire that entering students should display some such in their background. Indeed there have been sporadic suggestions in the past that a similar course in visual design be required of all undergraduates, as it is at many other institutions. Unlikely as it is, such a suggestion reflects the concern of many that the normal academic education neglects this field, which is a major element in our contemporary society...
Cheating the modern slots is therefore no job for the amateur. It requires professional skills: the crust of the con man, the deftness of the dip, the skill of the safecracker. The professional cheater will buy a machine ($400 and up), take it home to his workshop for devoted scientific study. Disassembling it, he will examine each reel, spring and screw. How best to make his entry? What tool will do the job? What part of the mechanism should be jimmied with what tool? Then comes careful experimentation until at last he discovers the machine's weak spot...
...Next year, if all goes well on this project," Thompson said, "we will take a workshop play over to B.U. after it has been performed here and let Yeager remake it for television, after which we will perform it on the B.U. network...