Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a bill allowing Congressmen to deduct from their income tax, as business expenses, all the money they spend to live in Washington (such deductions are now limited to $3,000 a year). In the same bill, for economy's sake, they took away the Cadillac of Capitol Architect David Lynn, who has been a Government employee for 51 years...
Americans are more directly affected by architecture than by any other art form. Treating the whole U.S. as their canvas, architects are steadily redrawing the U.S. landscape. Since the war, they have erected office buildings like aluminum sandwiches, put entire suburbs behind picture windows, built houses on stilts, stretched them out like boxcars, or looped them into rattlesnake coils. Last week Architect Eliot Noyes proposed to add still another shape to the landscape: a house made of a concrete bubble that promises 600 sq. ft. of living space for as little...
...Architect Noyes, 42, has spent 15 years looking for ways to make modern living pleasanter. After getting his master's degree from Harvard ('38) in the days when Gropius and Marcel Breuer were revolutionizing the staid architecture department with their Bauhaus ideas, Noyes decided to tackle the whole field of design from industry to houses. He went to work for Designer Norman Bel Geddes, reshaping everything from jukeboxes to radios...
Revolution in Connecticut. Moving to New Canaan, Conn, in 1946, Noyes built himself a flat-roofed modern house, convinced a neighbor that he ought to have one too. Soon, modern houses were sprouting like dandelions in New Canaan, and Architect Noyes built a dozen of the handsomest-gay, roomy homes with lots of glass, flat, sweeping lines, and without the stark, cold look that makes many modern homes so forbidding. Prices: $15,000 to $150,000. Noyes likes to plan a whole house down to built-in furniture and faucets, does not believe in drawing a line between the architect...
Divorced. By Diana Lynn, 26, cinemingenue (Meet Me at the Fair): John C. Lindsay, 35, Beverly Hills architect; after 4½ years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...