A Fountain and Stairway Design for the Open-Air Theater Behind the Music Building
| dc.contributor.author | Overturf, Josephine Wiseman | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-03T18:34:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-03T18:34:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1935-12 | |
| dc.description | 16 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | ... And now for a practical consideration of the problem. Here is a small outdoor theater for which I am to furnish a convenient entrance and exit. The group of people that will assemble here will be small. For this reason I have created by curve volumes, intimacy and unformality. By horizontal lines I have created a mood of rest and seriousness. There will be no need for a group to rush either into or out of this area -- this I have said with curved stairways. In formulating my idea I first built to scale a five foot bank with a ten foot slope as actually exists. Into this I sculptured or cut the volumes to coincide with the functions I have stated. The volumes illustrated emerged. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/28252 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | sculpture | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.title | A Fountain and Stairway Design for the Open-Air Theater Behind the Music Building | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |