Word: architected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furniture design should certainly be displayed at Carpenter Center, which is actively dedicated to education of the eye in all its aspects. But as impressive as Thonet and his chairs are, the greatness of this exhibit depends mostly on the relationship wrought between the industrial designer and Carpenter's architect. This relationship is welded by Toshiro Katayama...
...know Mr. Andrews well and have had occasion over the past years to work with him closely at the University of Toronto. He was, of course, the architect of Scarborough College, which, by the way, is an integral part of the University of Toronto. In addition, he has been for a number of years the chairman of a planning committee that has drawn up a scheme for the entire campus. Last summer it was my responsibility to take to the Board of Governors a recommendation that he be made Chairman of the Department of Architecture, and there is no recommendation...
...best be judged by the decision of the Student Government to ask Mr. Andrews to design their new Student Union building. Subsequently, you printed a letter from Mr. Robert Yelton, a second year student in the Graduate School of Design, in which he criticized the appointment of a single architect and maintained that there should be an inter-disciplinary group drawn from such disciplines as sociology, economics, politics, and psychology to work out "a comprehensive approach to the design of the environment...
University officials, in consultation with Mather's architect, Jean-Paul Carlhian, and the Turner Construction Company, the firm submitting the lowest original bid, worked out a series of technical modifications worth a half-million dollars in construction savings. On November 7, the University agreed to contract with Turner, and excavation began shortly after. Occupancy, Wiggins said, is still scheduled for September...
...architect himself: "He just doesn't know who he is. He's a funny guy who never knows how much things cost. He's suffering from the nineteenth century Jeffersonian thing--a guy with a book of friezes he's drawn on the Grand Tour. That's got to change...