Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MACHINE-FOR-LIVING "MODERN" (so named because France's famed Architect Le Corbusier once said: "The house is a machine for living") tries to be functional, but only succeeds in destroying privacy. "The 'living area' becomes an echoing cavern reverberating with every sound from children's yelling to the vacuum cleaner's whine. The open serving hatch [becomes] a television screen, showing a disheveled would-be functionalist trying to cope with a multiplicity of electric contrivances that report their broccoli and onions way beyond their allotted zone." The dining room "where families and friends...
Whether the new building remedied this problem has since been debated, but the fund-raising campaign, boosted by William Randolph Hearst, was a cheering success. Soon a triangular lot bounded by Plympton, Bow, and Mt. Auburn Streets was purchased, and architect Edmund Wheelwright, one of the Lampoon founders, was commissioned to design the building...
Underground City. Such difficulties are minor. The moon has feeble gravitation, which would be a help in moving from place to place, but the lack of atmosphere presents a problem to both architect and builder. Sowerby does not favor the large pressurized domes above the surface that are so popular with space illustrators. In the vacuum on the moon, the upward pressure of their interior atmospheres would be enormous. A domed "tent" only 10 ft. in diameter would pull against its moorings with a force of 50 tons. If big enough (100 ft. across) to hold a fair-sized habitation...
Isaacs states that the Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture is now training men for two specific sorts of professional careers: the "well rounded landscape architect for regulation city planning," and "men more broadly trained in conservation of resources and government finance who can work with government and other groups." Pointing to the fact that over one-half f the leaders of the planning professions are Harvard-trained, Issacs explained that he was anxious to maintain this leadership...
Died. Joseph Wright Powell, 76, naval architect and shipbuilder; in Thomasville, Ga. During the Spanish-American War, Annapolisman Powell commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet...