Word: architected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time consciousness also forced the University to break the traditional "lump sum tender" convention in which the architect first does all the designing and makes the final blueprints upon which construction contractors later make kids. The lowest bidder is then usually chosen. Instead, University officials commissioned the architect and the contractor simultaneously...
...worked well. "The contractor and the architect should work together. You save time and money and have a better building," said Andrews. Changes which the contractor finds are necessary can then be made "without all the red tape that is usually involved." Andrews hopes Harvard will allow the same architect-contractor relationship, though he thinks the University will choose the more conventional course...
...role of the architect," Andrews says, "is to synthesize all recommendations and studies of the specialists." After digesting all, Andrews designs and whatever happens with the outside "happens" according to Andrews...
...next page three important Cambridge architectural firms are examined, and Gropius speaks on his work and philosophy. On pages four and five there is a look at the architect at Harvard: a portrait of Design School Dean Jose Luis Sert and a survey of changes in the undergraduate architectural sciences program...
Controversial architect John Andrews, just commissioned to do Gund Hall, is interviewed and appraised on page six. On pages seven and eight photo essays contrast old and new Harvard architecture...