Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house applies to the government, waits 15 months while the application is processed through a dozen separate departments before reaching Crédit Foncier, the nationalized credit institution which may help them finance their project. Permission granted, the French couple then has to deal with the guild-conscious French architect and his seven fat handbooks entitled La Série Centrale des Architectes, which lay down exactly what may be done about building a house, in terms suitable for the age of Charlemagne. After the architect comes the French builder, a race apart from all others...
...projects, costs to builders were $6,800,000 more than mortgages. However, according to the law, builders should have invested more than twice as much ($14.2 million) of their own money as they did. ¶ In FHA applications, many builders valued land at five times its actual cost; architect's fees were put as high as ten times their cost...
...side, were wined and dined, given "girl parties," and outright bribes. Worst culprit: Assistant FHA Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, 58, boss of the rental-housing program since 1942, who is now serving a one-year jail sentence for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions. One architect said that he paid Powell a $10,000 bribe, and Powell's bank statements showed deposits of $218,330 between 1945 and 1954 while his Government income was only $8,265 during that period...
Flow Patterns. Conceived five years ago by its energetic director, Cancer Surgeon Randolph Lee Clark Jr., Anderson incorporates virtually all the features that any hospital architect, administrator or doctor has ever suggested to promote efficiency and comfort. The difference begins at the doors. Patients enter the building (shaped like a letter T, but with an added crossbar like an F) from the west, doctors and nurses from the south, administrative personnel from the southeast, research workers from the east, students from the north. In the wings housing the hospital's 310 beds, vertical and horizontal flow have been skillfully...
Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...