unbearable lightness - urban design charrette

[Jennifer Hurley]

On 2/12/04 2:00 AM, "Automatic digest processor"
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> Can someone please clarify what does this mean: "unbearable lightness
> catalogue - urban design charrette"?

"Charrette" is the French word for "little cart".  Architects now use the
term to mean "intense design workshop".  There's a story to this:
supposedly, at the end of the semester at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, the
students would frantically work on their end-of-semester assignments right
to the very end, even jumping into the "charrette", or cart, that the school
sent around to collect them.

Sorry to use confusing language.  Hope this helps.

Jennifer
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