Word: architect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADMIRERS call it the most beautiful - house on the most beautiful site in the U.S. Any architect would envy the site and some might have suggestions for doing things differently (they usually do), but all would agree that Architect Nathaniel Owings has built himself a house that any man could be proud...
...Site and architect came together by sheer chance. Seven years ago, rotund, ebullient Nat Owings, 56, a senior partner of the huge architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was visiting San, Francisco for the express purpose of courting a handsome divorcee, Margaret Wentworth. One fine fall day they set out on a picnic in the precipitous Big Sur country south of Carmel. Scrambling along the cliffs, they came upon a finger of land that thrust out into the Pacific in lonely grandeur. To the south, they could see a 40-mile sweep of coastline. Six hundred feet below, sea lions...
...whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing...
Tomb for Hiroshima. Tange decided in his teens to become an architect after he had seen pictures of Le Corbusier's rejected plan for the League of Nations. He attended Tokyo's Imperial University, later worked with Architect Kunio Maekawa, a former Le Corbusier pupil. Tange's big chance came after the war, when in 1949 he won the national competition to build the Hiroshima Peace Center on the site where the first A-bomb was dropped. His solution for the museum, library and auditorium was typically Corbusian: a series of reinforced concrete structures set on stilts...
Some of the modern architect's best customers are the U.S.'s expanding schools and colleges. But one of his most difficult problems is how to blend modern architecture with the traditional style enshrined in many an ivy-covered wall. Last week Eero Saarinen, probably the most versatile of living architects, unveiled the best solution...