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Monday we went to Marlene's room to listen to the lecture with the architecture students because it was "Interior Design Week."  Barbara Klinkhammer (sp?) spoke on lighting. She covered a LOT of information.  Lighting is a very technical field, with many small things you can do to get very large effects.  She talked about how the type of light/ light source affected the visual appearance of an interior space.  Had we had a little more time to covered such an amount of material, it probably would've been quite interesting.

On Wednesday, Avigail (sp?) talked to us about a little of the history/theory of interior design.  I found this lecture to be quite interesting because I love history in general and seeing a progression through time.  She mainly talked about Mies van der Rohe (Modernism) and Robert Venturi (Post-Modernism).  This lecture gave me a better appreciation because beforehand, I found his clean, straight lined designs to be rather boring.  Now I have a better understanding of where he was coming from when he was designing, and perhaps what he was trying to accomplish, and it's really a neat thought process.  I found Venturi to be interesting just the same if only because he is so different from van der Rohe.  They were both trying to accomplish different things and I think there is room both ideas.  Venturi's approach to learning or trying new things I thought was neat. (i.e. the visit to Vegas)