Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads and power lines. Its population has doubled in a decade. Beside its 100-ft.-wide streets, its 129 plazas and parks rise new skyscrapers such as the 24-story Banco da Lavoura, the severely elegant Hotel Normandy and a newly started, 35-story apartment house designed by famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer...
...much should the architect allow his client to say about the plans for his new house? Not too much, says Philip C. Johnson, director of architecture and design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Reporting his recent speech to the American Institute of Architects, the current issue of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM quotes Johnson's fair warning to prospective homeowners...
...many times an architect takes the attitude that his client can call the tune because he's paying the piper. Often the client gets in the way of an architect's creative ability . . . An architect's first duty is to his art. The real art of architecture is monumentality-something that will make you gasp . . . This is what every architect has to think about . . . You can't get this artistic experience by simply following the client's wants. Your client is not an artist. If he were, he probably wouldn't have come...
...When the library was first planned the trustees found that one corner of the contemplated land would encroach on the old Grancry graveyard. Graveyard officials gave permission to dig up the graves until they discovered what illustrious guest they were planning to re-air. This changed everything and the architect had to revise his plans and build a special vault for the Duke's boy to leave him undisturbed...
Under his leadership, the School of Education has more than tripled its resources. Research laboratories and new programs of administrative apprenticeship have effected a minor revolution in American education. Keppel is admittedly pleased, but not satisfied. Glancing at an architect's of a new million-and-a-half dollar building for the school, he says, "We've only just started...