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Philip N. Y outz

Dean, College of Architectut·e and Design University of M ichigan

Occasionally it is a good ideo to shake the tree of knowledge to see what fruit will fall. In a College of Architecture and Design, we may expect not apples but examples of student work in building design, landscaping, planning, and the visual arts.

looking over the illustrations in the pages which follow we catch a glimpse of the future professional artists and their compositions. This view ahead is not altogether easy to interpret because the students ore still working under the influence of their teachers. Consequently some of the spacial ideas ore borrowed ones. But even if the conceptions illustrated ore not wholly original, they indicate directions followed by student designers. Their mature work which will appear from ten to twenty years from now, will hove been influenced by what is shown here.

Teaching is possibly the most creative of the arts because its aims ore not master­pieces in pointing, sculpture, or architecture, but the production of living artists with free imaginations and independent modes of expression. A teacher has a delicate diplomatic mission. He must guide the beginner, yet ovoid imposing his own will on on immature personality.

In a College such as ours, the student has the great advantage of working under a numerous faculty representing diverse points of view. Consequently he is not likely to fall under the spell of a single individual. Thus he escapes the chief danger implicit in the old apprentice system under which there was the temptation to copy the master.

Perhaps this fear of mimicry is unrealistic. Students are as opt to react against as to conform to instruction. The more mature a person's thinking, the less likely he is to adopt the notions of others. If he does accept a suggestion, he works over his teacher's ideas so that they become his own.

What makes it difficult to predict the future from student work is the fact that we con never guage the impact of current culture on the artist. He is an individualist part of whose function is to suggest new directions for social evolution. If the artist is too traditional we regard his work as stole. If he is too advanced, we shun him as a revolu­tionist. The successful artist walks a tight rope that is stretched between the post and the future. He is likely to lose his footing if he moves too slowly or too fast.

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dimension supplement This presentation of student work has been

prepared in conjunction with the first annual

open house of the College of Architecture

and Design of the University of Michigan by

the staff of DIMENSION.

DIMENSION is an independent publication

issued twice a year by the students of this

college. Subscriptions to the regular issues

are we leo me.

Patron subscription $10. 00 year

Regular subscription 4. 00 year

Box 2127 Ann Arbor, Michigan

Editors and Staff: Fred Stephenson, Joe

Williams, Stephanie Lovell, Carl Nielsen,

Keith Brown, Doug Schroeder, Hal Nelson ,

Lloyd Stephens, Bill Smith, Tom Williams

Faculty Advisors: R. B. Lytle, Albert Mullen

Cover design: D. Derezinski 1958