Rhode Island School of Design - Portfolio Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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22 W ou are the architects, sometimes called the happy spacemakers. When you aren’t creating, youre wishing for 26-hour days, 8-day weeks, and adjustable due dates. You can design anything from a chair to a hotel with built-in skyscraper office and garage in six weeks, more or less, depending upon how impossible the problem is. But you aren’t just free creators. There is a maze of math courses, good for occasional nightmares but oh so handy to make a structure stand after it is designed. You see, Architecture is that non-existent profession, a practical fine art. Designers of our environment, our buildings and our cities,

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You approach Interior Design with enthusiasm tinged with curi- osity, thinking of interiors in terms of chintz and Louis Quinze, only to find yourself in an incredi- bly short time spreading the doc- trine of contemporary design. Later you practice what’s being preached to you, buy yourself a Hardoy chair if you’re financially solvent, “bor- row a little rhododendron, and paint your room Purist white. In the final lap you continue working night and day on wall-sized per- spectives, suddenly realizing that impatience has been replaced by the glow of being part of the Lichtblau legend.

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Designers in four dimensions. You are an architect, engineer, surveyor, gardener, expert on insects and diseases, psycholo- gist and artist. You make inter- esting marks on vellum, create a model in cardboard, imagine how that group will look in ten years, and hope that the hus- band of your client likes the same color roses as his wife, who insists on a bush “like that one Grandmother had in Balti- more.” You spend your after- noons walking in the country, visiting small homes and estates, having tea with rose experts, and come home with armloads of chrysanthemums . .. and you call this work?