Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with two rows of eight huge columns, and flanked by an aisle on each side. The vaulted appearance, where the arched tunnels crossed, readily suggested a cathedral to many visitors. The idea took hold, and three years ago the Bank of the Republic, which operates the Zipaquira mines, assigned Architect José Maria González Concha to finish part of the galleries as a church...
...than banking. His two chief talents are tireless energy and the ability to bring warring viewpoints together. He used both to good effect in his three years (1949-52) as U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, where he won and kept the respect of conflicting political parties and, as chief architect of the peace contract, was the godfather of the Bonn Republic...
Gropins was alarmed at "today's complete separation of design from the execution of buildings, of the drafting board from the building site." "This," he said while at the University and repeats now, "is artificial, and has led the architect to a dead...
...wanted the architect's education to prepare a man not only to design buildings but to "Take part as a legitimate equal with the engineer and the scientist in the conception, design, and execution of component parts of building...
...other school in the country does. Now, it takes a student as long to get his Bachelor of Architecture degree at Harvard as the time needed for a master's at M.I.T. or Pennsylvania. But both students and faculty agree that a liberal arts training is necessary to an architect and planner, who must be able to comprehend all of man's environment in order to build for him. Some will argue, however, that there should be more practical rather than general courses in the college training, and Stubbins feels the University should arrange with other colleges to take their...