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Weiss Publications

Part I: A FRAMEWORK OF IDEAS

Chapter 1

Cultural Nucleus
 In designing human environments, different measures of time may be worked with as socio-cultural rhythms (included in WOV, p. 4).
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Color Arranges Itself by Form
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Color Arranges Itself by Form
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Formation of a Visual Language (sketches) 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Formation of a Visual Language (sketches)  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Formation of a Visual Language (sketches) 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Myopic Vision  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Organic Connections
Mary Otis Stevens (October 2, 1961)

Study of a Visual Language 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 2
 Mary Otis Steven (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 3
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 4 
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 5 
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 6 
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 7
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Study of a Visual Language 8 
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Visualizing Ideas  
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Chapter 2

Concept of the Mirror Image 11 (sketch) 
Symmetry used to show perfection and omnipotence in the human environment (included in WOV, p. 14) .
Mary Otis Stevens (1961)

The Internal Structure of Things (included in WOV, p. 16).
 Mary Otis Stevens (1961)

Balance of Forces Symmetry 1 
Thomas F McNulty (1958)

Balance of Forces Symmetry 2
 Thomas F McNulty (1958)

Balance of Forces Symmetry 3
 Growth lines.
 Thomas F McNulty (1958)

Non Repetitive Enclosures
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Organic Expansion
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

The Parable in Architecture  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Spatial Sensations
 Space is a state created by psychologically restricting man in enclosures and then causing him to experience "infinity" by means of repetition and extension. A pleasant state of extension is "freedom." A pleasant sensation of enclosure is praised as "space" and interiors.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Without Connection
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Chapter 3

Natural Insertions
 Land forms can give a correct scale and character as well as a pleasantness to living in any environment (included in WOV, p. 18).
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Abstracting from Nature
 The mountain image is associated with human aspirations and idealism (included in WOV, p. 20) .
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Cultural Webs  
The web as an image of nature offers disguise. It is a form of protection and penetration that can apply to a problems of connection snd isolation in human environments (included in WOV, p. 20).
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Cultural Rain
 The flower form is an image of beauty, reminiscent of the mysterious process of life unfolding from a seed (included in WOV, p. 20).
 Mary Otis Stevens (1961)

Abstracting From Nature
 Townscape
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Abstracting From Nature  
The mystical prolongation of winter.
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Abstracting From Nature
Symmetry 4 
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Abstracting From Nature
Symmetry 5
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Abstracting From Nature
Symmetry 6
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Abstracting From Nature
Symmetry 8
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Abstracting From Nature
3 Zones
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature
 Civilizations evolve through periods - each with their own maturity of form and content. Let each period be held separate as a stream with estuaries.
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature
Flower House
 Light filters through petals to space below. Platform open to sky.
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature
Flower House
 Construction sky to cave .
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature
Formations of a Culture.  The society is amorphous. The unique person gives it form, newness, direction.
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature
Layering 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature  
Natural systems of expansions.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Abstracting From Nature
Aerial view.
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Layering 2  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Layering 3 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Urbanization  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Circular Movement 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Cultural Conflict
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Layering 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Layering 2
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Monolith Cultural Cores
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Protected Culture
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Symmetries  
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Aggregate and Solitary Sensor of Space
 Community design. A sense of space which becomes "pattern," individual design. A solitary sense of space towards painting.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Center Introverted State of Being
 The center is an introverted state of being. It is therefore very important architecturally.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Continuation of the Horizontal 
Connects man with what is beyond one barrier. Openings and extensions to hide what is inside.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Enclosing Freedom
 Enclosures repeated give a sense of extension. This is man's sensation of space – freedom.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Repetitions
 Direction, expansion, definition, cluster, recurrence.  A form must be simple to be repeated and it must have extension as a great potentiality. Man feels extension as freedom.
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Senses of Inside Outside
Enclosure is the vertical. What is space is horizontal. Senses of inside and outside by the vertical.
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

The World from Without
 A scale of space .
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

The World Within
 The world within neither perspective nor imagery .
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Stream of Growth
 Time as a stream .
Mary Otis Stevens (November 19, 1957)

Chapter 4

Protecting a Nucleus
 "Physical designs can begin to express the new dimensions of space…"  (included in WOV, p. 25).
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Cultural Protections 
Explosions of cultures.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Cultural Protections
Explosions of cultures.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Cultural Protections
 Super positions. Make color, form, nature of intersections as simple and uncomplicated as possible. Man cannot make complexity interesting. Only God does it in nature.
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Cultural Protections 
Webs. Each culture heart enclosed in a web of protection.
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Part II: ARCHITECTURE ON A SOCIAL SCALE

Chapter 5

Establishing a New Nucleus 
"Consider, for instance the pressures that drive people into loneliness, into the walled caves of their secret structures…" 
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Cultural Rythms
 The need for beauty as a social oasis.
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Establishing a New Nucleus 
The need for fantasy to answer a society’s need for disguise.
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Cultural Wall 
The glass wall.
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Establishing a New Nucleus
 The model is an expression of an internal explosion with a restricted environment .
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Growth Lines
 A society’s treatment of nonconformity.
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Advancement of Two Cultures  
Cultural creative explosions.
Thomas McNulty (September 9, 1957)

Connecting Centers
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Cultural Collision  
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Cultural Oppression 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Cultural Oppression 2 
Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Fantasy Connected to Reality 1 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Fantasy Connected to Reality 2
 Mary Otis Stevens (1961)

Fantasy Connected to Reality 3
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Without a Master Plan. Exciting Jungle Growth .
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Chapter 6

Cultural Intersections  (included in WOV, p. 53).
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Forms of Cultural Protection (included in WOV, p. 54) .
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Superposition of Living Patterns  (included in WOV, p. 54).
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Belt Connecting Individual Cultures
 Thomas McNulty (August 25, 1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 2 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 3
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 4
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 5
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 6
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 7 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 8
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Black and White Cultural Formations 9
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Balanced intentions between environments.
Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Barriers in space.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Cultural protections.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Formation of a cultural direction in time.
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Mutations (3)  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Mutations (6)  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Penetration
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Pulsations
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Relocation as a solution to racial conflict.  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Social breakdowns.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Spectrum of human possibilities.
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Speculation 1  – proportions of soul to body.
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Speculation 2 – superposition of evolutionary concept of man as spirit.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Super Positions 14 – conformity polarizes life so there is no conflict.
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Viewpoints 13
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Views of a problem 7.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Conceptual Evolution
Walls around the cell 8 – wWalls ground the self and avenues of communication.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Confined Expansions
Evolution of 3 colors.
 Mary Otis Stevens (September 5, 1957)

Confined Expansions 2
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Cultural Projections
Orthographic life.
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Cultural Protections 
Webs – from phase A to phase B of a culture. Human lifetimes as points of transition and linear connection.
Thomas McNulty (September 9, 1957)

Detaching From a Center 
They remain in their locality most of the time but when they move if it is far only certain places where people would want to go.
 Thomas McNulty (1957)

Meeting of Two Cultures  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Intersections
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Nucleus of a Culture, or Idea, Surrounded by Time  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Nucleus of a Culture 2  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Super Positions  
Segregated levels of accepted and logical living patterns .
Thomas McNulty (1957)

Super Positions
 Super positions of a fixed order on pulsations life.
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Super Positions 1
 Pulses with natural built.
Thomas McNulty (August 25, 1957)

Super Positions
 Thomas McNulty (1959)

Super Positions 4 
Garden of Eden and a city's complexity. Can one be superimposed on other? If separated realities, are they understandable?
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Super Position Vertical Circulation  
Thomas McNulty (1959)

The Enclave
Rigidity – only certain places where people can circulate.
 Thomas McNulty (1959)

The Filtered City
 Thomas McNulty (September 1, 1957)

Chapter 7

The Monolith (included in WOV, p. 63).
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Architecture for the Sensitive 
The organic evolution of growth rings (included in WOV, p. 63).
 Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Centralized Growth 1
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Centralized Order
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (September 5, 1957)

Cultural Collage City 
City of complete confusion and identity - no conflicts alone .
Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Rich City Core
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Part III: ARCHITECTURE BEYOND CITIES

Chapter 8

Human Galaxies  (included in WOV, p. 68).
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Mass Movement 
Spaces in a self-governing society designed for mass movement (included in WOV p. 70) .
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Centralized Expansion 1 
Thomas McNulty (1958)

Centralized Expansion 2
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Centralized Expansion 3
 Mary Otis Stevens (1958)

Circulation 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Circulation 2
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Growth Lines 1
 Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Growth of a Culture  
Thomas McNulty (1957)

Human Movement  
Mary Otis Stevens (circa1959)

Circular Movement 1 
Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Circular Movement 2
 Mary Otis Stevens (1959)

Chapter 9

Linear Society Growth Lines
 Conceptual image of the subdivisions of growth lines (included in WOV, p. 91) .
Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Growth Lines 3
 Mary Otis Stevens (1961)

Growth Lines 3
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (n.d.)

Growth Lines Urban Rural Rhythms  
Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (circa 1960)

Chapter 10

Growth Lines 2 
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Growth Lines 2 
Culture B – Culture A.  
Mary Otis Stevens (1957)

Growth Lines 7 
Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (circa 1960)

Growth Lines
Nature urban intervals.
 Mary Otis Stevens (circa 1960)

Growth Lines
Study of time pulsations.
 Thomas McNulty (circa 1960)

Growth Lines
Urban rural connection.
 Thomas McNulty and Mary Otis Stevens (circa 1960)

Linear Expansion (1)
 Thomas McNulty (1959)

Nodal Point Growth Lines (2)
 Thomas McNulty (circa 1960)