The 'harvard gsd' in the link button below is the Graduate School of Design.
Related material — "News of the World" in this journal.
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Logic at Harvard
A review of the Log24 posts on Oct. 29, 2015,
yields the following image relevant to remarks at
the Harvard Graduate School of Design yesterday:
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Branding at Harvard
From the Harvard Graduate School of Design's introduction
to a lecture on All Souls' Day 2015 —
"Calvin Klein is an award-winning fashion icon.
He is recognized globally as a master of minimalism
and has spent his career distilling things to
their very essence. His name ranks among the
best-known brands in the world, with Calvin Klein, Inc.
reaching over seven billion dollars in global retail sales."
A Klein icon I prefer —
Click the above image for some backstory.
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Friday, September 15, 2023
Friday, February 10, 2023
Introduction to Gutter Mathematics
From the Feb. 7 post "The Graduate School of Design" —
Related material —
Illustrations — From The previous post . . .
From Google —
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Saturday, October 22, 2022
Monday, March 30, 2020
More Academic Ugliness
The Boston Globe on the dead architect of the previous post —
"Mr. McKinnell, who was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, taught for many years at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology School of Architecture and Planning."
Some ugly rhetoric to go with the ugly architecture —
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Up to Date
The obituary for Sekler is somewhat surprising, given that he
reportedly died on May 1, 2017. His burial is also rather late,
according to the Globe —
"A service has been held for Dr. Sekler . . . .
He will be buried Sept. 29 in a cemetery
in Vienna, in his family’s plot."
"A memorial lecture in his honor is planned for November
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design." — The Globe
"All in good time, my little pretty."
Another design note related to May Day 2017 —
Related material —
A Vanderbilt University article titled "The significance of Sheriff Bell’s
dreams at the end of No Country for Old Men," and an obituary from
a Log24 post, "Extreme Aesthetic Distance," of August 27, 2017 . . .
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
How Deep the Darkness
See Bauhaus remarks on space and Devil's Night Eve.
See also Klein Group and, for the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, an appropriate Calvin Klein label —
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Eternity (Not by Calvin Klein*)
The two symbols on the monolith
may, if one likes, be interpreted
as standing for Damnation Morning
and for the Windmill of Time.
* "Award-winning fashion icon."
— Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Retro or Not?
Happy birthday to the late Michael Crichton (Harvard ’64).
See also Diamond Theory Roulette —
Part of the ReCode Project (http://recodeproject.com). Based on "Diamond Theory" by Steven H. Cullinane, originally published in "Computer Graphics and Art" Vol. 2 No. 1, February 1977. Copyright (c) 2013 Radames Ajna — OSI/MIT license (http://recodeproject/license).
Related remarks on Plato for Harvard’s
Graduate School of Design —
See also posts from the above publication date, March 31,
2006, among posts now tagged “The Church in Philadelphia.”
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Source of the Finite
"Die Unendlichkeit ist die uranfängliche Tatsache: es wäre nur
zu erklären, woher das Endliche stamme…."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Das Philosophenbuch/Le livre du philosophe
(Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1969), fragment 120, p. 118
Cited as above, and translated as "Infinity is the original fact;
what has to be explained is the source of the finite…." in
The Production of Space , by Henri Lefebvre. (Oxford: Blackwell,
1991 (1974)), p. 181.
This quotation was suggested by the Bauhaus-related phrase
"the laws of cubical space" (see yesterday's Schau der Gestalt )
and by the laws of cubical space discussed in the webpage
Cube Space, 1984-2003.
For a less rigorous approach to space at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, see earlier references to Lefebvre in this journal.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Design
The New York Times online front page last night—
"Microsoft introduced its own tablet computer,
called Surface, illustrating the pressure
Apple's success has put on it to marry
software and hardware more tightly."
Commentary—
Google Maps image
"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?"
The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus (1923)
Update of Feb. 3, 2013:
See also The Perception of Doors in this journal.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday February 27, 2009
Time and Chance
continued
continued
Today's Pennsylvania lottery numbers suggest the following meditations…
Midday: Lot 497, Bloomsbury Auctions May 15, 2008– Raum und Zeit (Space and Time), by Minkowski, 1909. Background: Minkowski Space and "100 Years of Space-Time."*
Evening: 5/07, 2008, in this journal– "Forms of the Rock."
Related material:
A current competition at Harvard Graduate School of Design, "The Space of Representation," has a deadline of 8 PM tonight, February 27, 2009.
The announcement of the competition quotes the Marxist Henri Lefebvre on "the social production of space."
A related quotation by Lefebvre (cf. 2/22 2009):
"… an epoch-making event so generally ignored that we have to be reminded of it at every moment. The fact is that around 1910 a certain space was shattered… the space… of classical perspective and geometry…."
— Page 25 of The Production of Space (Blackwell Publishing, 1991)
This suggests, for those who prefer Harvard's past glories to its current state, a different Raum from the Zeit 1910.
In January 1910 Annals of Mathematics, then edited at Harvard, published George M. Conwell's "The 3-space PG(3, 2) and Its Group." This paper, while perhaps neither epoch-making nor shattering, has a certain beauty. For some background, see this journal on February 24, 2009.†
* Ending on Stephen King's birthday, 2008
† Mardi Gras
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday February 22, 2009
Design at Harvard:
Natural or Unnatural?
From the Harvard Graduate School of Design–
Call for Entries: The Space of Representation
DEADLINE FEBRUARY 27, 2009 8PM EST
"According to Henri Lefebvre, the social production of space has three components: spatial practice, the representation of space, and the space of representation. The latter two are integral to both design and the review process."
Also according to Henri Lefebvre:
This is clearly nonsense.
It is also, like much else at Harvard,
damned Marxist nonsense.
I recommend instead
James Joyce on space —
Dagger Definitions
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Saturday, July 5, 2003
Saturday July 5, 2003
Elements
In memory of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and head of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Gropius died on this date in 1969. He said that
"The objective of all creative effort in the visual arts is to give form to space. … But what is space, how can it be understood and given a form?"
"Alle bildnerische Arbeit will Raum gestalten. … Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn erfassen und gestalten?"
Gropius
— "The Theory and Organization
of the Bauhaus" (1923)
I designed the following logo for my Diamond Theory site early this morning before reading in a calendar that today is the date of Gropius's death. Hence the above quote.
"And still those voices are calling
from far away…"
from far away…"
— The Eagles
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("Stoicheia," Elements, is the title of
Euclid's treatise on geometry.)
Euclid's treatise on geometry.)