GORWIC SAYS: 'Townscape' Should Incorporate All Art Ability By DOUGLAS VIELMETTI "Townscape," urban planner Norbert Gorwic said yesterday, "is the incorporation of the work of the architect, designer, planner, artist and sculptor in the shaping of our physical environment." "Townscaping must be the work of the urban planner. He must shape and integrate all of the forms of visual art into a pattern of emotion and function," de- clared Gorwic. "Our towns and cities must be more than the mechanical total of many very individual struc- tures. We must be able to see the unity of the whole, united into New Student Plan Adopted At Washington Maintenance of academic standards and consideration for the superior student is the sub- ject of a new program outlined at State College of Washington. A product of a two-year study, the program recommended that greater emphasis be 'placed on a limited number of degree require- ments, and reducing the number of duplicating and highly descrip- tive courses offered-. Consideration to effective use of new instructional techniques was also recommended. The comittee itself was prompt- ed by concern that the pressure of numbers resulting from the an- ticipated future expansion of en- rollment would decrease the at- tention given superior students and would impair academic stand.. ards for all, according to Dr. S. Town Stephenson, Dean of Fac- ulty. Every effort should be made to assist the superior student in liv- ing up to his capabilities, the com- mittee said. Superior students should be ex- cused from placement examina- tions and fromh required elemen- tary courses, thus permitting them to take additional electives or pursue special individual stu- dies, according to the report. In addition, consideration of special class sections for superior students and fewer exceptions for inferior students; more emphasis on demonstrated student perform- ances in comprehensive area ex- aminations and less "on the mere' accumulation of credits per se," was recommended ' Provision of adequate scholar- ships for outstanding undergrad- uates and fellowships for excellent graduate students was advised. The committee also proposed that adequate secretarial, techni- cal and teaching assistant help be provided as funds may be avail- able. Administrative .functions currently performed by commit- tees should be reduced and the work handed through administra- tive channels, the committee ad- vised. something far more powerful and holding greater physical appeal than just the sum of the parts." "No Man's Land" But townscaping today is hard to picture as a science or art in itself. It occupies the "no man's land" between the basic lay-out and design work of the city plan- ner and the building design work of the architect. The planner must gather statistics, solve zoning problems and develop a master plan of design. But this master plan is not enough; it is hardly a beginning. Te various architects must de- sign the structures. "You can't produce a symphony from a hundred different musi- cians playing from a hundred dif- ferent scores," explained the townscaper. "And neither can you produce a masterpiece of urban design from the competing efforts of many - different architects. There must be rules of coordina- tion and purpose if we are to reach our goal of unity -of the whole."' Gorwi's Rules Gorwic's rules are these: first, there must be total integration of all forms of visual art. St. Peter's Square in Rome assembles buildings, sculpture, painting and the square itself, all blended into one beautiful masterpiece. Every- thing, including nature, must blend together. Second, there must be a deep North Campus Water Tank Bids Accepted Bids are now being accepted by the city for the construction of a foundation for an;'elevatedwater tank for North Campus. The city is also asking bids on equipment in connection with a future water pumping station and underground reservoir in the same area. The circular concrete founda- tion is to be used to hold a 500,- 00-gallon elevated tank. The equipment requested includes three centrifugal pumping units, two pumping two million gallons per day and one having a daily capacity of four million gallons. Contractors have already been named for construction of the pumping station and underground reservoir themselves. All three installations will be built on land obtained by the city from the Uni- versity. NAACP Schedules General Meeting There will be a general mem- bership meeting of the NAACP at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Rm. 3511 of the Student Activities Building, ac- cording to Torre Bissell, '60, pub- licity chairman. conviction that the group is more important than the individual building. The Champs-Elysees, in Paris, considered by Gorwic to be one of the most beautiful streets in the world, has no dominant buildings. But the blending and consistancy of the architecture, and the breathless picture of the Arc of Triumph and the obelisk at opposite ends give it un- matched greatness. Third, it is necessary to know and understand the past in build- ing up the new. All of the old must not be obliterated to make way for the new. Again, it must blend. St. Mark's Square took 1,000 years to complete. This is the concept of building the mas- terpiece. This is effective assimi- lation of the old into the new. Students Challenged Townscaper Gorwic put this challenge to the studeits before him in the Architecture Audi- torium. "You must not think of how I can make my building better than any other building, but how I can best make my building fit into a new urban composition." United Fuid Nearing Goal Ann Arbor's United Fund Drive has collected 90.3 per cent of its $332,446 goal, according to Robert' B. Kerschbaum, director of the Drive. He reported that a total of ,$300,350 in pledges and contribu- tions have been made to date. United Fund officials hope that" the drive will top at least 92.6 per cent of the goal, Kirschbaum said. Three divisions of the drive - construction, utilities, and St. Jo- seph Mercy Hospital -have ex- ceeded their individual estimates, he reported. Other divisions are still trying to reach their goals, Kerschbaum commented. Industrial employees are within 1.3 per cent of their' mark, and corporations have yet to collect 20.8 per cerit ,of their goal. Public schools have already col- lected 93A per cent of their esti- -mate, he said. Kirschbaum urg d all citizens who have not made their pledges to do so. STARTS TODAY ;Now T Prof. James B. Conant, ex-pre ident of Harvard University ax former ambassador to West- 0e many, Thursday advocated tes ing junior high school students "learn what resources we have." "It is important for the con munity, state and nation to knc the number of students we ha who have ability and resources Prof. Conant said. He made the remarks during tour of Ann Arbor High Scho The inspection was part Conant's two-year, nationwi study of American high schoo: which he explained was intend to give him necessary backgrow "to speak and write authorit tively about the contribtitio which these schools make to o society." - Discusses Eisenhower His suggestion, for testing students came during a discussic of President Dwight D. Eisenho er's speech Wednesday nig Conant called the speech "exce lent, and ,a tough one to make He said Eisenhower's proposal f a stepped-up education progra sounded like "a good idea," a though he was not sure just wh the President had in mind. H o w e v e r, Conant warn+ against neglect of students outsi the science and engineering field including those who do not go college. Conant's high school progra; for above average students, as explained it, would consist of fo years of English, three or fo years of social studies, three four years of foreign language ar a great deal of mathematics. Disappointed in Schools "I think just as we needl eng neers and scientists, we ne people whn have mastered sever foreign languages," he said. I mentioned that in Russia, ev( with their highly specialize school curriculum, graduates ha taken five years of a foreign lat guage. 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