Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect-Designer Paul László, 52, is a comfort-loving Hungarian expatriate who arrived in the U.S. 16 years ago with $200 in his pocket and a one-word vocabulary: okay. Since then he has enormously expanded both. By catering to the comfort of his rich clients, he has built up a $1,5OO,000-a-year business as designer of some of the nation's most luxurious showplaces. And in his fancy Beverly Hills showroom last week, he was volubly admiring the first samples of his latest commission: $1,000,000 worth of modern furniture...
...Architect Walter Gropius' 15 years at Harvard, the Graduate School of Design has risen to No. 1 rank among U.S. architectural schools, in part at least because of Walter Gropius (TIME, Jan. 21). He was renowned as the founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus school, and youngsters for whom the words Gropius and Bauhaus meant crisp, challenging modernism followed him to Harvard. There, amid the pink & white Georgian of the Yard, he and his collaborators built a modern brick and glass graduate center. But for the most part, Gropius built little, was content to be a teacher...
...Francisco two years ago, Richard Perkins, an architect's assistant, and his wife Lois, a newspaperwoman, found a way to lick the high cost of a house. They set to work to build their own, although neither had ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity...
Dream Come True. The superliner is the dreamboat of William Francis Gibbs, 65, crack naval architect and famed designer of World War II's Liberty ships, and every type of naval ship from destroyer to battleship. He sold the dream to the Government and U.S. Lines Co.; the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry dock Co. made it come true...
Citation: "Architect of the 'Six Pillars of Peace'; for four decades now entrusted repeatedly . . . with international missions requiring the utmost in expertness . . .; his most recent triumph . . . the making of peace with Japan ... a 'peace of regeneration' . . . enviable...