Word: architects
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Into the Air. In 1923 Ben became a U.S. citizen, went on to Texas A. & M., got his B.S. in engineering, an R.O.T.C. commission, and a yen to be an architect. But Depression-time was rough for fledgling architects, and besides, Ben had got a lot of fun walking miles out to the dirt fields near San Antonio to watch the U.S.'s flying cadets putting their de Havillands through their paces. So he applied for and was accepted in the Air Corps flying school, survived the school's average of one crash landing for every 30 hours...
...achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. When an international architectural competition was launched, 355 entrants from 25 countries submitted their designs. Last week the jury awarded first prize and $5,000 to Architect Reginald Caywood Knight, 35, of M.I.T.'s department of architecture...
THIS week the American Institute of Architects announced the winners of its fourth annual Journalism Awards Competition, in recognition of writing that has furthered public understanding of architecture and the architect. Winner of first prize of $500 for the best article on an architectural subject or personality published by a U.S. magazine in 1956: TIME Associate Editor Cranston Jones, for his cover story (July 2) on Architect Eero Saarinen...
...Architect's Furniture" [Feb. 18] you ask ''What is a chair?" From the illustrations, a chair is something to sit down in, way down. But a chair is also something to arise from. There is but one chair, the Breuer, that I could sit in without the embarrassment of having to be helped to leave. Of course I am a grandmother, not too ancient, and the reflexes aren't what they used to be, but I can still arise with dignity from all but the most modern chairs...
...ARCHITECT WEESE'S DESIGN [for the new U.S. Embassy at Accra-March 4] is COMFORTING AFTER THE EPIDEMIC OF AUDITORIUMS FASHIONED AS STRANGE BIRDS ALIGHTING BACKWARD INTO THE WIND, CHURCH MONSTROSITIES, CRATES ON END AND DETROIT ROAD RUNNER STYLING...