Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation to Washington. (Congress must approve the "Jefferson National Expansion Memorial," as it is to be called, and put up most of the estimated $30 million...
There was talk of crisis in Mexico City last week. Architect Mario Pani and Engineers Héctor Maganda and Armando Oseli separately warned that the capital was sinking. Through thousands of wells, they said, subterranean water was being pumped out of the old dry lake bed on which the city stands. As a result, the whole city sank more than seven inches last year. The Palace of Fine Arts, already six feet lower than its original level, settled still more. Grades changed as Mexico City drank up its own footing...
Seldom before had Swiss-born Architect Le Corbusier had such cooperation: his plans had usually been considered so radical and so costly that few were ever translated into buildings. The French Government was smoothing the way for Le Corbusier because it believed that other French architects could use the building as a model. For Le Corbusier it was "the first step towards the radiant city of tomorrow...
...Commission of Fine Arts loudly disapproved the scheme, declaring that it would "permanently change the appearance of the south façade."* Pennsylvania's Congressman-Architect Frederick Muhlenberg rose to declare that the White House "was a heritage of the American people, not lightly or casually to be altered at the whim of any tenant." Indignant letters poured in to the Washington papers; cartoonists lampooned the plan. Crumped the New York Herald Tribune: " 'Back-porch Harry' is scarcely an appellation that a man would like to carry into a presidential campaign, even if he were impervious...
State Department officials last week refused to let Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer into the U.S. when Niemeyer recently asked for a visa so that he could deliver a lecture series at Yale. Niemeyer, who helped design the proposed New York capital of the United Nations, is one of the world's best known architects. He is also one of Brazil's best known Communists...