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I. Architectural Design
I. Architectural Design
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Currently he is representing architecture on a committee advising the State Department on its foreign building operations. He is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the American institute of Architects and has received much praise and several awards for his distinguished work in resiclential.
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a flat roof, a poured concrete ~door, and an asymmetric elevation and plan to accommodate on one side a work bench for Hi ost continuous mechanical repairs ancT maintenance. I believe the neighbors thought this unfamiliar structure extremely ugly.
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not be news when you ren~en~ber his first training was as a stonemason. In the City of Chicago, running bond, seven courses of bricks lengthways and the next end side to, is aIn~ost stancIarcT.
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Photo: Eel a Stoller CHAPEL' MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Eero Saarinen, architect 9
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In similar vein, Saarinen's eggshell-thick plastic-coverecT concrete cloned with walls of alu~ninu~n and glass is l~alancec: against a cylinder of brick wI~ich encloses one of the most inspiring chapels of our tinge. Much of tile success of the chapel, as well as some of the interior brickwork beneath the auclitoriu~n cTome, results frown the search for ancT selection of bricks Title inherent incTivicluality and variety in size and color, ancT a mortar color that blencTs the diversity of tl~e :Lnits into a unity of the whole wall to achieve a satisfaction oracle snore thrilling because of its apparently artless subtlety.
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AncT, finally, of course, the stage uses people in anotl~er way in plays. In a play, the individuals are unified in an art form in which ideas and conflicts form the mortar that blends the sinlulatecT inner characters of the performers into a beauty beyond surface appearance.
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More and snore designers are gladly accepting mechanical results as the expression of our time still only tide Early Machine Age. Machines are what we make then we can control masonry construction so that even some of the unique qualities now associated only with old, [land-fashioned masonry units shouIc]
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Photo: Ezra Stoller JEWISH CHAPEL, INTERFAITH CENTER, BRANDIEIS UNIVERSITY' WALTHAM' MASS. Harrison & Abramovitz' architects 13
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Moore Moore Liz Co., Inc., Stamford, Conn. taught fine arts and archeology in colleges.
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Herbert Hannah assumes this when he writes: "It is the specific responsibility and need of architecture at this point to bring the craftsman back into builcling to work with hint to (nd fresh, creative answers to the use of present materials, to find fresh combinations of new materials for the best ex 16 pression of a given architectural space. The snore resourceful the craftsman is in clearing with each element, the greater the visual flexibility of the architectural space.
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Simply this: modern furniture, which has Second all design, all structure, needs sonnetizing to relieve its nakedness. :[t is a part of each of us that a plain surface cries out for something to be put on it: an apothecary jar Inane into a lamp or used as a vase; philoclendron leaves hanging from a shelf; oIcT prints hung on the wall; an oriental carpet on the floor-anything' anything to relieve the tedium!
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Nearly a generation ago, Ralph Adams Crane could write, "The complete Toss of color out of architecture is one of tee curious phenomena of the Renaissance, casting its drab shadow in lengthening lines and ever-increasing gIoon~ over the art of building in modern tildes." These words are a sac commentary on the courage of Mr. Crane hin~self, and because they night have been written by any architect today, their might also be a sad commentary on the courage of all contemporary architecture.
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a Dipole galIcry of compositions Silica can provide any imaginative arcT~itect witty a magnificent point of departure. In taxis country, we leave not been so aciventureso~e, but we leave multiple examples of imaginative brick setting, tile execution of which fibrous less of a burden on the brick settcr than it cloes on the architect or (resigner.
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They are proper building mould for your concept. It will do you justice.
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He is a Institute of British Architects, several other member of the Class of 191 1 of Massachuetts foreign architectural societies, and a Vice Presi ,Institute of TecihnoZogy and was a Rotch dent of the International Union of Architects. ANYBODY can design a building-in fact the average architect is continually hampered in taste by amateur clients who know nave than he does; but it does take expert knowlecige of In these days one is aIn~ost ten~pte(1 to say: "Masonry wails are obsolete!
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~ leave founcT that ~noclular construction cloes not mean necessarily that design costs are an;; spoiler. In fact in building conditions as they now exist :E fincI that snore ancT snore ~ must design the buiTcling co~npleteTy on paper.
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It was the first job Oldish he had ever clone in whirls there were no clipped bricks. The window wall that is the conventional wall, as opposed to the panel wall, is one for which T have a high regard in that, quite contrary to amateur illumination engineers, it does reduce glare and also greatly diminishes the thermal problems, resulting in a low first cost for refrigeration, and of course extremely low operation costs.
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Tllere are no human heat losses carried to poorly insulated walls in there-such as you find at General Motors, for example. The walls are purposely thick so as to remove as much of the glass area front the sun as possible.
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because most building laws require ~nasonr;; walls about shafts, stairways, and so forth, ancT some difficulty is still founc:l in achieving a Ocular result. (We need, and research men are already developing, thin sheet plastics to cover fragile insulation walls, eliminating plaster and paint, and songs clay soon we will, ~ ant sure, achieve another fireproof glue Vesicles cement.
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TM R . W ~ ~ ~ ~ R: ~ heard recently that tile masonry group, ~ forget whether it is tile clay products group.
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Do you see as notch opportunity of integration of art and building in masonry construction as in Norm plastic forms of material construction?
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