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Brett Donham '60, M. Arch '64, is an architect in Boston. He spent his youth in Neighborhood 10, lived in Agassiz during graduate school, and is now a resident of Neighborhood...
...Before a reception and a state dinner in honor of Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky last week, the White House social office revealed that bachelors asked over to the Fords' are encouraged to bring a date. The result: faces not seen around the White House in years. Architect Philip Johnson brought Lee Radziwill, and U.P.I. Reporter Richard Growald escorted Barbara Howar, who has been in exile since the Johnsons banished her eight years ago. Unrepressed as ever, Barbara announced that she had pinched matches, menu and program card as souvenirs. She also asked Nancy Kissinger: "Are you pregnant...
...James Wood writes in his catalogue essay, "To deal with Max Bill solely as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist is to make a distinction which he never made in his work: the distinction between Fine Art and the other areas of his activity." Bill has practiced as an architect; he has designed all manner of manufactured objects, from samovars to wall clocks; he was responsible for the shape of one the most elegantly pure pre-stressed-concrete structures in the world, the Lavina-Tobel bridge in Switzerland (1966-67). In design, Bill has been an acknowledged rationalizing force...
According to Bruce Kilgore, chief architect of the Park Service's new policy, one of the parks in which natural fires would have done the most good is one where fires have been rigorously controlled: California's Sequoia National Park. There, if natural fires had been allowed to sweep through the area's firs while they were young, the trees would have burned without involving the great redwoods. But now the fir forest has grown so tall that the tops of the firs reach the Sequoias' lowest branches. Should a fire sweep through the firs...
Some large architectural firms have slashed their staffs by 70%. Says Atlanta Architect John Portman: "I think there are more architects out of work now than at any other time since the Depression." That goes for real estate brokers too. Complains James Williams, head of a Virginia construction company's sales staff: "The customers do not even come around to look any more...