Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising out of sprawling slums, Moscow's gingerbread skyscrapers are a source of embarrassment to Stalin's collective successors, who have felt obliged to point out that elevators often stick, plumbing frequently fails, and doors and windows are full of cracks. Complained Party Secretary Khrushchev: "The architect needs a beautiful silhouette, but the people want apartments." A year ago Khrushchev proposed the speedy production of cheap, prefabricated concrete living units, later sent a delegation of ten Soviet building experts to study U.S. methods...
...steel and glass in U.S. buildings. Said one: "A child's dream of a Christmas tree come true." But the travelers had no chance to put up Christmas trees of their own. Last week the Kremlin called for the complete reorganization of the building industry, ripped into Soviet architects for "neglecting the need to create conveniences for the population." Deprived of their Stalin prizes, the architects were accused of building "utterly unjustified tower superstructures, decorative colonnades and porticoes . . . as a result of which, state resources have been overspent to an amount with which more than one million square meters...
Where was Architect Vlasov? A top member of a Soviet delegation studying U.S. building methods, he was in Manhattan, checked in at the Plaza Hotel and on a shopping expedition, when the news of Khrushchev's decree came through. "I do not believe what has been printed in the American press," said Delegation Leader Koziulia. "It's not true." Next day, boarding the Queen Elizabeth on his way home, Vlasov, smiling nervously, cracked: "As you see, I'm alive, and I'm in good humor." Added Russia's chief specialist in Stalinist baroque...
...city of Taichung contributed the 345-acre tract on which the university is located. Architect I. M. Pei of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, himself a graduate of St. John's University in Shanghai, a mainland Christian college, drew up plans for three terraced college quadrangles and four dormitories of open design. The college's 35 faculty members include refugee mainlanders, Formosans and teachers from the U.S. President Tseng was given leave from his post as professor of English literature at Taiwan National Uni versity to take over at Tunghai...
Eric Pawley, speaking yesterday at a conference of the Institute's New England Regional Council in Allston Burr Lecture hall, proposed a strong liaison between educators and architects for future secondary school construction. "Educational equipment and methods of construction are the concern of school administrators," he continued, "but they are the professional responsibility of the architect...