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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lasting Investment. Politics represents a direction architects have traditionally been loath to take. But not for much longer. Says A.I.A. President George Kassabaum: "Architects cannot wait until the politician, the sociologist and the economist invite us into the picture. By then, too many of the important decisions have been made." Nat Owings heartily agrees. He knows from experience that once decisions have been built into concrete, they are there to stay. He also sees the architect as the only person trained to maintain the balance between those esthetic qualities that give grace to modern city living and the multiple commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: To Cherish Rather than Destroy | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...developing a "strategy of accomplishment," U.S. architects can draw on a whole arsenal of technology: precast concrete beams that span 100 ft.; cable-hung roofs that carry across distances of 420 ft.; mass-production assembling techniques; and a rapidly expanding range of building materials, from glare-reducing glass and spun plastic to rust-sealing steel. Concrete used as a finished material is already giving visual variety to the city. "It is the most important change in the art of building since World War II," says Architect Marcel Breuer. "You can sculpt concrete, you can mold it, chisel it, increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: To Cherish Rather than Destroy | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...late 1950s, S.O.M. had established itself as the corporate architect.* As Owings recalls his first encounter with Henry Ford: "We were scared as hell. We didn't know what they wanted. So we just said, 'Look, we're going to live with you and love you and learn to know you.' " S.O.M. designers refer to the client-architect relationship as "a marriage," and as clients testify, there are few secrets from anyone by the end of the association. The product of this hard union is usually a beautiful building. S.O.M. has won more top design awards from the American Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: To Cherish Rather than Destroy | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Brattle Square | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...architect for the Library, has opposed the zoning changes until a master plan for the Harvard Square area can be devised, and because he says that a 35-foot high garage on the complex site "would be a sort of blight" on one side of the Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Convenes Special Session Of City Council | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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