Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for the building (above) were designed by Eero Saarinen, Detroit architect, with the cooperation of the two MIT professors of Architecture. The spherical surface will be slightly raised from the ground at its vertices, and supported by heavy abutments. Between the corners will be segmented glass window-walls...
...well-to-do, imperturbable Jimmy Dunn, the reassignment means a return to the place where he started his foreign-service career 33 years ago. After studying for a law degree and practicing briefly as an architect, he entered the Foreign Service as third secretary in Madrid. Married to Mary Armour of the meatpacking family, he combined social assurance and a sure sense of protocol with an unspectacular determination to become a competent career man. In 1927 Cal Coolidge borrowed him as White House director of ceremonies, and he stayed on under Herbert Hoover as chief of protocol...
...onetime leper hospital. In 1948, the university's most powerful alumnus, President Miguel Alemán (Law, '28), decided that the 28,000 students needed a brand-new home-a U.S.-style campus complete with dormitories and a football stadium. A group of faculty and student architects submitted the winning design. Finally, in 1950, Alemán named Architect Carlos Lazo, 38, to take overall charge of the work...
...impressionistic statue of ex-President Alemán which bore such an odd resemblance to Joseph Stalin (see cut) that the sculptor had to do some retouching. Within the grounds a shell-roofed cosmic-ray laboratory shows the functional influence; translucent marble towers follow the "international" style of French architect Le Corbusier; glass-studded classroom cupolas renew the familiar form of the Spanish colonial. But all bear-in color, in texture, in decoration or design-the authentic Aztec mark of Mexico...
...similar in line and color to the ancient pyramids near by, seem even closer to Mexico's Indian past. Actually, the structures are made largely of concrete, and the local volcanic rock is used merely as a coating. A far more striking blending of Indian and international is Architect-Muralist Juan O'Gorman's magnificent windowless library (see opposite page). O'Gorman, son of an Irish father and Mexican mother, has decorated the four sides of his tower with vast and vivid mosaics pairing heraldic symbols of Mexico's Mediterranean and Middle American pasts...