Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describes his style as rationalistic. "I abhor the artistic, intuitive approach," he says. What do the two different approaches mean to the non-architect...
Sert's Holyoke Center and Andrews' Scarborough are rationalistic buildings. The process of design of each individual architect determines the form of the building, most students of architecture will tell you. Andrews' process is clear in the designing of the Ontario college...
...Russia and much of Europe, builders have been achieving construction economies for years with variations of Zachry's technique. "This is going to be the trend of the future," says Manhattan Architect William Tabler, the busiest U.S. designer of hotels. "What Zachry is doing is wonderful. I'd be doing it too, if we could." Like most contractors, Tabler blames organized labor for preventing adoption of such cost-cutting methods, sometimes by the threat of tying up a job in jurisdictional disputes, sometimes through covert control of local building codes. In New York City, for instance, Electrical Workers...
Many students object to the University's naming only an architect to design the building. "Sociologists, and psychologists should have also been named," Robert W. Yelton, editor of Connection, the student operated Design School magazine, said yesterday...
...broad and detailed response to society. It must be based on an accurate knowledge of that society through the discipline of sociology, economics, politics, and psychology," Yelton said. 'It seems incongruous that, here of all places, the building should be farmed out in the traditional fashion to an individual architect...