Word: architecturale
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Your article "Helping the Handicapped" [Dec. 5] stated that the passage of the Rehabilitation Act would be a boon to the handicapped but costly for taxpayers. One must remember, however, that removing architectural and attitudinal barriers will begin to open doors to employment of the handicapped. Once employed, these people...
The man who chooses such work is Lee Lorenz, cartoon editor of The New Yorker. In Now Look What You've Done (Pantheon; unpaged; $7.95), Lorenz employs little of Saxon's architectural draftsmanship or Price's mirth-shaking slapstick. But in the right mood, he can quote...
HEW has ordered all the institutions around the country that it touches to file plans by next week showing how they intend to comply with the new regulations. The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, responsible for enforcing building-access requirements, has been accepting complaints for the past two years...
The city's master builder is J. Irwin Miller, a civic-minded industrialist and former president of the National Council of Churches who is sometimes called "the Medici of the Middle West." In 1939, Miller startled Columbus by choosing the great Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design a new...
Miller had already set the example by hiring Eliel's architect son, Eero, a friend since they studied together at Yale in the 1930s, to build what would become one of the country's first banks with all-glass walls and an atrium-like interior. The town fathers...