Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 28 medical clinic designs behind him, Seattle's Paul Hayden Kirk, 42, has emerged as the West Coast architect who can design just what the doctors order. Two years ago a group of seven Seattle psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, banded together as the Blakeley Psychiatric Group, went to Architect Kirk with a special problem. As one of them stated (with some symptoms of frustration): "Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes...
...Architect Kirk was eager to tackle their problem. A childhood victim of polio, he had long since come to the conclusion that "architecture can be medicine, or at least part of the therapy." His answer is a long, low, $112,000 clinic building that bears no resemblance to standard medical surroundings. Patients arriving for their 50-minute hours last week were ushered through the Oregon-basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks...
...reaction suited Architect Kirk right to the bottom of his T square. Said he: "It is too much to hope that the building itself can cure, but clearly it can be a symbol of health. I guess my psychiatric friends might say it's a back-to-the-womb feeling. But then that's been basic to all architecture since the comfort of the cave...
...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...
...find he has only reproduced Marquand's low emotional pulsebeat. In this 1957 Harper Prize Novel, Author Frank Norris* does not quite get out of this Marquandary. His hero, George Hanes, is cut to the Marquand measure; he is an Ivy Leaguer (Princeton '01), a professional man (architect), unhappily married, and an ineffectual struggler against the leg irons of convention. But he is also a man of such insufferable nobility as to invite repeated kicks in the pants...