Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to express our pleasure with the cover story, but would like to point out an omission in the caption of the two illustrations of Clowes Memorial Hall, which was built in memory of my father. You name John Johansen as the architect. In fact he worked in association with Evans Woollen...
Thus, at a press conference given last week by the Kennedy family, Canton-born Architect Ieoh Ming Pei accepted a commission that any architect would have sold his ancestral home to get: designing the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Harvard. Says Painter William Walton, who, along with Jacqueline Kennedy, served on the selecting committee: "We chose Pei because his work is exciting and expressive, and we felt that he was on the verge of even greater work. He's every architect's second choice-next to themselves...
...million reconstruction project in Boston, has a say-so in the downtown redevelopments in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Providence and Columbus. Winning a Federal Aviation Agency commission, Pei has designed a universal trim, pentagonal control tower now being installed in at least 25 U.S. airports. More than any other architect, Pei is engaged in a vast revamping of the U.S. cityscape...
...Handstands. It is ironic that the commission for a monument should go to an architect who believes that his colleagues are too often overwhelmed with their own edifice complex. Pei holds that doing a handstand in marble on a street-corner site while ignoring the neighbors is an irresponsible posture for an architect. "What's there must influence what comes later," he says. "But architecture must not do violence to space or to its neighbors." Architects must, he believes, "realize that open space is just as important as the shaft, the pile, the solid masses...
Married. Charles Evans Hughes III, 49, Manhattan architect, grandson of the Chief Justice, and Kimberly Jean Wiss, 40, freelance sportswriter, record holder for the largest fish ever landed by a woman (a 1,525-lb. black marlin); both for the second time; in Manhattan...