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keeping with the modern nently preserved in 1997.

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architecture, and the open At the entrance to the
rectangle of grass where an Woods, straight down from
ornamental pond used to be. Fuld Hall, you will see a
Head over to the beauti- bench that faces the Foun-
ful birch garden between the
Dining Hall and the West
ders Rock placed there in
1950. A plaque on the Rock
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Building and admire the reads: Dedicated to Louis
graceful trunks and peeling Bamberger and his sister
bark of the swaying trees. Carrie B. F. Fuld whose
Can there be a better way to The tapestry bas-relief Green Silk Forest by Sheila Hicks hangs in the Dining Hall. Originally commis- vision and generosity made
sioned by AT&T for their corporate headquarters, it was acquired and donated to the Institute by
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view some art than sipping Bob and Lynn Johnston, who are Friends of the Institute. this Institute for Advanced
a cappuccino next to the Study possible. This bench The Campus Buildings The east side of the campus
mosaic in the birch garden? This Italian mosaic shows Bacchus was dedicated in 2005 to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Abraham Flexner founded the Institute for Advanced Study in features a number of newer build-
from Cento Celle near Rome. It is thought to be a Renaissance Institutes founding. Continue on down and you will reach the 1930 and was its Director from 1930 to 1939. His vision of an ings. Both Simonyi Hall, home of
copy of a Roman design. It is on loan from the University of Penn- Swinging Bridge, which spans the Stony Brook River and marks institute for pure research was supported by philanthropists and the School of Mathematics, and
sylvania Museum in Philadelphia. While in the birch garden, make the end of the Founders Walk. generous benefactors Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Wolfensohn Hall were designed
sure that you see Tiny, created by Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum, The Institute Pond was constructed in the 1960s and has been Bamberger Fuld. If you stand outside the front of Fuld Hall you by architect Cesar Pelli and date
which won the 1944 George Widener Medal from the Pennsyl- stocked with many types of fish, including catfish, sunfish, and will see to the right of the front door a cornerstone dated 1939, the from 1994. Wolfensohn Hall is
vania Academy of Design. bass over the years. year that the building and its used for concerts and lectures,
Another sculpture, New Piece (1980), can be found by walking two symmetrical buildings A many of them open to the general
down the Founders Walk. This was established in 1950 in honor Art Inside and B were constructed. This public. The newest building on the
of the Institutes founders and continues the northsouth axis of There are noteworthy works of art inside the Institute buildings symmetry was the signature campus is an extension to
the alle from Olden Farm to Fuld Hall and down to the Institute too, including busts of Einstein (in the Fuld Hall Common Room) style of the architect, Jens Bloomberg Hall that houses The
Woods. New Piece was a gift of the artist, Tony Smith (191280), and of the late School of Historical Studies Professor Elias A. Fredrick Larson, as was the Simons Center for Systems Biol-
and a plaque notes: In commemoration of Albert Einsteins life Lowe (in the Historical Studies-Social Science Library) by Jacob sweeping road with open ogy as well as a new home for
and work. Presented on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Epstein. Sheila Hickss Green Silk Forest tapestry, also known as meadow to the north and computing. The extension, by the
Institute for Advanced Study. To fully appreciate this piece, view Rain Forest, hangs at one end of the Dining Hall, where it was terrace at the back. While the architectural firm Pelli Clarke
it from several different angles. Across the pond is the intriguing installed in 2007. Originally commissioned by AT&T in 1975 for trees were not planted until Pelli, opened in 2007 and has a
granite and steel sculpture its headquarters, it was donated to the Institute by Lynn and Bob the mid-1950s, Larson did green roof that is designed to im-
by Elyn Zimmerman, Johnston, who are Friends of the Institute. Floor mosaics from also envisage the alle of prove insulation and reduce storm Robert Wilsons Nike sculpture
whose late husband Kirk Antioch on the Orontes can be found on both levels of the Dining trees leading up to Olden water runoff.
Varnedoe was a Professor Hall. Most of them date back to the fifth or sixth century AD and Farm. This clapboard house
in the School of Historical were acquired from Princeton University in 1971. Former Mem- has served as the home of Landscaping and Sculptures
Studies at the Institute. bers Doro Levi and Glanville Downey were involved in studies of seven of the Institutes eight You will have noticed several sculptures tucked away among
The sculpture was dedi- the mosaics from Antioch. Try not to miss the rather curious Arri- Richard Long installs his Slate Oasis
Directors and dates to the the various buildings. Outside Bloomberg Hall is a landscape
cated on May 20, 2005, val sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz in the Dining Hall, which com- early eighteenth century. At sculpture by Mary Miss laid out in striking fashion in 2002 and
the seventy-fifth anniver- memorates the centennial of the birth of Albert Einstein. the back of Fuld Hall are two buildings, C and D, also designed by surrounded by ornamental Hawthorne trees that bear bright red
sary of the Institutes In the Common Room of Fuld Hall, where people assemble for Larson, that face each other across the lawn; they were built from berries in the fall.
founding. Be sure to read tea every weekday, there is a beautiful grandfather clock as well as 1948 to 1949, when J. Robert Oppenheimer was the Director. In In the courtyard formed by Bloomberg Hall, Wolfensohn Hall,
the inscriptions on the prints, wall hangings, pastels, and busts, including a striking one of 1954, building E was completed the last structure designed by and Simonyi Hall are two pieces of artwork (1994), the practical
back of the benches and Abraham Flexner. Find out more about one or more pieces and Larson for the Institute. black slate chalkboard and the intriguing copper fountain, both
consider whether this impress your friends and family . . . or simply appreciate them. Over time and as the need arose, other buildings have been part of the original design for this area. The streaks left by the
sculpture reminds you at added. The next addition to the campus was the Historical Stud- trickling water are part of the design. And tucked into a small rec-
all of the birch trees as Landscape and History Interwoven iesSocial Science Library, which tangular courtyard between the new
seen through the windows And finally, if you walk up the avenue between Fuld Hall and offers users such beautiful views Simons Center and Bloomberg Hall is
This bust of Albert Einstein is located in the Mathe- of the Dining Hall. Olden Farm, notice how the regularity of the line of the American over the pond. The library was de- the newest outside artwork, known as
maticsNatural Sciences Library in Fuld Hall. The The Institute is located plane trees is interrupted by one old oak. This oak predates the signed by Wallace K. Harrison and Slate Oasis, designed and created by
bust was completed by Sergei Konenkov in 1939, on 800 acres, the majority planting of the avenue and may well outlive the plane trees and completed in 1965, about the same Richard Long in 2007.
the year that Fuld Hall and its two symmetrical time as the pond. This was followed If you now walk across the lawn
buildings were constructed. of which were perma- reminds us of the role history plays in the growth of the Institute.
by the West Building (home to the that sweeps down to the Institute
humanities) and the Dining Hall, Woods, past the beautiful linden tree
TIMES at THE INSTITUTE which were completed in 1972 dur- that brushes the lawn with its bran-
is published by the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS) ing Carl Kaysens Directorship. The ches, you will reach Robert Wilsons
Art & Architecture complex was designed by Robert Nike sculpture, commissioned by
Editorial Board: Brig Gebert, Linda Geraci, Helen Goddard, Kelly Devine Thomas Geddes, who later designed Oppenheimer and installed in front of
Layout and design: Brig Gebert
Photos: Helen Goddard, Dinah Kazakoff, James Stephens, Bruce White Bloomberg Hall, completed in 2002, the library in 1965. Notice the sym-
which cleverly incorporates build- metrical planting of linden trees, in
ings C and E into its structure. Mary Miss sculpture viewed from above Continued on page 4
Streets at the Institute Member Housing
Have you ever wondered why the streets American School of Classical When the Institute was founded in 1930, housing was quite kind of building. This was accomplished by means of changing
in Member housing are so named? Have Studies in Athens and was a easily available in town at affordable prices. But as time went by roof overhangs, sunshades, screen and terrace walls of contrasting
you noticed the alphabetical order, starting pioneer in the investigation of and the Institute grew, the need for housing located closer to the masonry, open stairways, balconies, and open carports. The latter
with Earle and finishing with Weyl? pre-Greek and the earliest Institute became apparent. The first such housing is shown in this provided vistas through and beyond the houses.
They are a relatively new featurewhen the Greek peoples. She received charming picture by Patricia Cleary Berlin, whose husband Theo- Much thought was given to the layout of the rooms and of the
Institute housing for Members was first the Gold Medal of the Ameri- dore Berlin was a Member in the School of Mathematics. This houses, with the practicalities of daily living a high priority along
built there was just one access road. The can Institute of Archaeology housing was known, fondly, as the Barracks, because the structures with the aesthetics and cost of the project. In a memoir about Mar-
short dead-end roads were put in in 1999 to for Distinguished Archaeo- had housed military troops in the Adirondack region during World cel Breuer, his associate Robert Gatje wrote: We tried hard to
remove through traffic and make it a safer logical Achievement. War II. J. Robert Oppenheimer give them [the houses] the feel of a
place for children to play. They were named (Director 194766) purchased eleven of home, despite the fact that they would
after some of the former Faculty and Direc- MERITT LANE: these buildings in June 1948, providing house transient occupants, and each
tors, now deceased. Each of these highly Benjamin Meritt (1899 Professor John von Neumann (far right) led the Electronic Computer Project, thirty-eight apartments with two or apartment had a fireplace and private
distinguished persons could fill their own 1989) was a noted ancient one of the first stored-program computers, which was designed and built in
three bedrooms each. terrace or balcony. Care was taken
issuethese short paragraphs can only give historian, probably best the basement of Fuld Hall and later in a building of its own that now houses
Crossroads Nursery School. These served the Institute Members over the internal layout, with the study
you a glimpse into their lives. known for his work on an- well for a number of years until they doubling if necessary as an extra bed-
cient Greek inscriptions. He were replaced by the current structures room, high strip windows offering pri-
EARLE LANE: spent much of his academic life at the Insti- appointed to the Institute, where he stayed in the late 1950s while Oppenheimer vacy for rooms facing the street, kitch-
Edward Mead Earle (18941954) was tute, where he was appointed Professor in for the rest of his career. In 1940, he mar- was still the Director. These buildings ens placed near the front door, and suf-
born in New York City. He graduated from 1935 at the young age of thirty-six. Meritt ried Louise Jeffreys, his second wife. They are very distinctive and were designed ficient space in the bedrooms for two
Columbia University. In 1919, he married created a marvelous center for the study of had five children. Although his work en- by the important German architect Mar- beds and a study area. Roof overhangs
Beatrice Lowndes, and together they had Attic epigraphy at the Institute, attracting compasses many mathematical problems, cel Breuer, whose Bauhaus designs protected large windows from too much
one daughter. Earle was appointed to the scholars from far and wide who came to use he spent most of his career developing include the Whitney Museum of Ameri- sunshine.
Faculty of the Institute in 1934. In the the Historical StudiesSocial Science Li- Morse theory in differential topology. can Art in New York. On Thursday, September 19, 1957,
School of Economics and Politics he estab- brary he had built up and to contribute to An article about the design of the an article in the Princeton Packet fea-
lished a seminar designed to explore various daily discussion and debate about these VON NEUMANN DRIVE: Institute Member housing that appeared tured the recently completed Institute
issues on American security. Earle is best ancient texts. John von Neumann (190357) was born in Architectural Record in March 1958 In 1953, Patricia Clearly Berlin, whose husband Theodore Berlin housing project, which was to be home
known for his role as a strategist in World in Budapest, Hungary, as Neumann Jnos, explained: The dwelling units . . . were was then a Member in the School of Mathematics, painted this view for 115 families at monthly rents rang-
War II. Princeton University Library pro- MORSE LANE: called Jancsi; he died in Washington, D.C., grouped to form a series of courts where of the Institutes first Member housing structures that were for-
merly used as World War II military barracks.
ing from $60 to $120. Tricycles patrol
vides researchers access to his publications Harold Calvin Marston Morse (1892 as John von Neumann, called Johnny. Von children at play may be watched. All the newly paved streets, safely insulated
and correspondence, graciously donated by 1977) was born in Maine. He was known by Neumanns intellect illuminated the fields dining, kitchen and living rooms face the courts for this reason, as from all thru-traffic. A steady procession takes advantage of the
his wife after he died in 1954. his third name, which was the maiden name of pure and applied mathematics, computer well as for favorable outlook upon no traffic areas . . . Trees were projects central laundry facilities. Cars continue to arrive and
of his mother, Ella Phoebe Marston. After science, quantum mechanics, economics, saved wherever possible and the buildings placed with their unload . . . A German shepherd snubs an orange cat all signs of a
FLEXNER LANE: attending college in his hometown, Water- and strategic thinking. He pioneered the lengths paralleling existing contours in order to minimize excava- new bustling community.
Abraham Flexner (18661959) was the ville, he studied and taught math at Harvard modern computer, game theory, and the tion and grading. The project consisted of one- and two-story In 2000, the Member housing was expanded and renovated by
first Director of the Institute, from 1930 to University. He moved on to become assis- theory of nuclear deterrence. In 1933, at age dwellings with a horizontal emphasis modified from the conven- architect Michael Landau, yet the project still reflects the essence
1939. He was largely responsible for devel- tant professor at Cornell and Brown Univer- thirty, he became the youngest professor at tional to rob them of the monotony so often associated with that of Breuers wonderful and lasting design.
oping a national system of tightly regulated sity after World War I. In 1935, he was the Institute in the School of Mathematics,
medical schools in the United States. After where he was frequently mistaken for a
Flexner was approached by wealthy store graduate student. He and his second wife, Streets at the Institute - continued from page 2
owners, Louis Bamberger and his sister Klra Dn, were known to throw elegant
Caroline Bamberger Fuld, who wished to and interesting parties in their Princeton One testament of this is his appointment (1943) and Studies in Iconology (1939) are
use their wealth to establish a medical home on Library Place. as the third Director of the Institute for Ad- probably the publications of his that are best
school, he persuaded them that a research vanced Study. He stayed in this position known to the general public. Panofsky de-
center where scholars could pursue their OPPENHEIMER LANE: until 1966, which makes him the longest- fined an artist as one who is full of im-
research without distractions would be more Julius Robert Oppenheimer (190467) serving director in the history of the Insti- ages.
valuable. Flexner believed passionately in is known to many only as the father of the tute so far.
the importance of freedom to think unfet- atomic bomb. Born in New York to Ger- WEYL LANE:
tered by any pressure to be useful. man immigrants, he and his younger PANOFSKY LANE: Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885
brother, Frank, who also became a physi- Erwin Panofsky (18921968), a Ger- 1955) was born and educated in Germany,
GOLDMAN LANE: cist, were educated broadly. At school he man-American art historian and essayist, where he studied mathematics and physics.
Hetty Goldman (18811972) was the studied mathematics, science, and Greek also emigrated from Europe to the United Weyl had a lifelong interest in philosophy.
first woman to be appointed to the Insti- but also was interested in ethics and history. States. He became one of the first Faculty He married Helene Joseph, a philosophy
tutes permanent Faculty. She served as He graduated from Harvard University with members of the newly constituted School of and language major, in 1913. They had two
Professor from 193647 and then as Profes- a major in chemistry. As an undergraduate Humanistic Studies of the sons. From 1913 to 1930, Weyl held the
This portrait of Erwin
sor Emeritus until her death in 1972. She he never took a class in physics. As a scien- Institute in 1935. He lived Panofsky by Philip
Chair of Mathematics at Zrich Technische
This bust of Abraham Flexner was graciously donated
was a graduate of Bryn Mawr and the first by his wife Anne Flexner, whose financial success as a tist he is considered the primary founder of and worked in Princeton for Pearlstein hangs in the Hochschule. He joined the Institute in 1933,
woman to be awarded the Charles Eliot Broadway playwright enabled Flexner to establish his the American school of theoretical physics. the rest of his life. The Life Institutes Historical where he stayed until his retirement in
Norton Fellowship. Goldman attended the international reputation as an education reformer and Continued on page 3 and Art of Albrecht Drer StudiesSocial Science 1951.
ultimately found the Institute. Library.

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