Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want a brighter England," said Architect Tait. "I want to see gloom banished from the grey industrial areas. I want great simplicity in design, good proportion, more light, more color, more lakes and more fountains. . . . Needs and modern materials will dictate our architecture. It will have to be functional but it will not be ugly, cubist or arrogantly advanced...
Reconstruction. Londoners were determined to turn Hitler's destruction into a "Heaven-sent" opportunity for civic improvement, and as dynamite squads reduced tottering walls and chimneys, the press blossomed with articles on post-war construction. Wrote Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, architect assigned to the task of rebuilding Coventry: "[London] was the great magnet, but owing to the misapplication of democratic principles it became a mass of barbarity in which too many sought to better themselves at the expense of others. . . . Meanwhile, looking on impotently was a great body of highly trained architects and planners visualizing rational and ordered plans...
...task of national replanning went to stuffy but astute Minister of Works and Buildings Sir John Reith. With the assistance of Consulting Engineer Colonel Howard Humphreys as Director of Works, and Architect Thomas S. Tait as Director of Standardization, he last week submitted a reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land...
...false belly. Just under six feet tall, he weighs a noble 320 Ib.-result of resigning himself to comedy and enjoying the cooking of his Bulgarian wife. Born in Rome, Salvatore Baccaloni sang as a boy in the Sistine Choir. When his voice changed, he resolved to become an architect, would have done so had not an old-time Metropolitan baritone persuaded him to take up singing again. Today Baccaloni knows all the major basso roles, specializes in the fat ones...
Unable to hit on a permanent occupation, Boltz made a quick comeback by marrying Hazel Huckel, daughter of a prosperous Germantown architect who soon died, leaving his daughter $100,000. With his wife's money, Boltz went back to school-this time to study law at the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became...