Role of landscape artist
and design problems cited
By .IKAN McBKIOK
Kmc raid Ijttaff Writer
"A landscape In great when it
combines utility with beauty,"
Garrett Eckbo, a landscape artist
froiri Southern California, said In
his lecture Tuesday evening In
Commonwealth Hall.
Eckbo aaid the landscape art
ist's job is to Improve relations
between people and their environ
ment. The architect must co-ordi
nate knowledge of land, climate,1
soil, vegetation, utility of area
and cultural atmosphere to
create a harmonious design with
thu building.
The primary elements of land
scape art, Eckbo said, are rock,
land, water and vegetation. Trees '
provide interesting structural pat
terns and are primary In organiz
ing space in landscape and in
providing a transition between
buildings and the garden.
To improve view
"It takes quite an argument to
showf you improve the view of a
picture window by taking part of
it away," Kekbo said when ex
plaining that a picture window
needs trees to frame the view and
provide a transition to the dis
tance.
The last part of Eckbo’s lec
ture was a series of slides on
landscape art. The idea that
landscape should have utility and
beauty is now being extended Into
the field of playground equip
ment for schools, Eckbo said. He
showed a scries of slides of pre
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on which to ba»e the rules of
this Institution. However, the
question at hand seems to be
just what is the function of a
university ?
A university is not to be a
moral institution. Of course it
is concerned with the moral at
titude and Hocial respectability
cf its students, but It is not re
sponsible for what Joe College
and Betty Coed do between the
hours of seven and ten thirty.
This is the responuibility of their
parents. A university is not a
finishing school. It is not re
sponsible for forbidding Miss
Collegiute to wear slacks or ber
mudu shorts on the campus
without a long coat. It is the
parents' responsibility to in
struct their daughters as to
what to wear and when to wear
it.
It is a university's responsi
bility to provide adequate class
• rooms and professors and suf
ficient places to study. It is a
university’s function to be an
institution of higher learning,
an institution that allows a
young person to develop into a
self-sufficient, educated adult.
To provide for this development,
the University of Oregon en
forces a regimented set of rules
to insure the welfare of its stu
dents. and in so doing only
serves to keep the students in
the child-like state, with which
they enter college. As a result
of this repression, the desire to
learn simply for the joy of
learning is stifled under the
weight of out-inoded, unneces
sary regulations, and the true
meaning of college ceases to
exist.
Nancy Whitaker
Freshman English Major
Dear Liz,
Ilo.v come yOu married that
loser Eddie? He’s a lemon, Liz, a
real “hood.” A good looking
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than that. You should have tried
for Daniel Quincy (D.Q. Dan).
He owns 814 Dairy Queen stores!
These Include language requlre
fabricated structures of varying
shape* for children to climb on.
"Noting from the polished sur
faces," he said, “the children en
joy them."
Another idea of a series of
sand boxes didn’t work out as
well, he said, because the chil
dren all wanted to be in the same j
box. Similar to climbing bars are i
the new prefabricated "Cyprus j
Trees" for climbing, Kckbo said.
They also provide a transition
from the school building to the
flat play areas.
Approach Is problem
One problem of landscape de
sign Involves the approach and
entrance to buildings. Kckbo said.
When showing a slide of an en
trance to a doctor's office, Kckbo
said the Bhrubs and trees made
the visitor want to enter. "The
benches In front were provided,"
he said, “for the more hesitant."
Kckbo discussed the potential
of concrete as a sculpture media
and of rock shapes in landscape
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quarters for housing similar to
that used In the area and a knowl
edge of the political views of
Marx. Lenin and Mao Tse Tung.
Hints said that the authors use
McWhite’s letter to express their
own viewpoints. He found the
book to be readable but greatly
oversimplified, biased and incom
plete. He noted these ommissions
In the book:
• There is no mention of the
many college professors who are
serving abroad.
• Nothing is said about con
tract groups such as the U.8.
businessmen in foreign countries
or the work of the church in these
areas.
At the close of his lecture,
Hints read the final paragraphs
from the epilogue of “The Ugly
American.” It read In part:
“What we need is a small force
of dedicated foreign diplomats
who are willing to risk a loss of
comfort and, In some cases, their
health... If the enthusiasm of
the people can be aroused, we can
succeed."
design. “The wonder of nature,”
Eckbo said, "is that they are all
similar but never identical.”
Basically landscape art is a
free design problem and there
fore alalogous to sculpture and
painting. When an area is land
scaped with utility, beauty and
visual and physical circulation in
mind, the final outcome provides
a continuous and pleasurable ex
perience for every person, Eckbo
mid. This Is what will make our
cities good to live in.
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cial comment on the February
presentation of Homer Keller’s
’Third Symphony,” the orchestra
has received an Award of Merit
in the 1959 Parade of American
Music under the sponsorship of
the National Federation of Music
Clubs.
James Albert, graduate assist
ant in the School of Music, will
play the trumpet solos in “Proc
lamation.” Albert, who graduated
frotr. the University last year, has
played with the orchestra for the
past five years.
Second on the program tonight
will be "Gymnopedies" by Erik
Satie. "Gymnopedies” were origi
nally written in 1885 as a set of
three piano pieces. Satie’s style
of extreme simplicity greatly in
fluenced Claude Debussy and he
orchestrated two of the Gymnope
dies. It is in this form that the
University-Eugene Orchestra will
present them.
Rac Fetherstonhaugh and John
Str\ibe will be featured in the
third selection, Mendelssohn's
“Incidental Music” from “Mid
summer Night's Dream.” Fether
stonhaugh will play the solo
French horn parts of "Nocturne,”
and Strube will be the flute solo
ist of "Scherzo.” The first of the
three Mendelssohn pieces will be
“Intermezzo.”
Ludwig van Beethoven’s dra
matic and exciting Symphony No.
3, "Eroiea,” will conclude the
concert.
Students will be admitted to
the concert with student body
card.
Short story contest open for students
The Ernest Haycox Short Story
contest will offer prizes of $100
and $00 to the authors of the best
short stories turned into the Eng
lish department office by May 28.
Open to all students, graduate
and undergraduates, the contest
is an annual event. Interested
students should submit one copy
but should include their name in
I a separate envelope.
Prizes are supported through
gifts from Mrs. Ernest Haycox
in memory of her husband, a
graduate of the University of
Oregon, class of '23.
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