Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bucky invented a series of Dymaxion bathrooms which were excellently designed, but demanded a great deal of their occupants. "Damn it," said an eminent architectural friend of Bucky's, "Bucky thinks people ought to get weighed while sitting on the toilet seat, brushing their teeth with a cake of...
Sir Hugh Casson, 42, who made his name (and his knighthood) by supervising the architectural preparations for the 1951 Festival of Britain, is in charge of decorating London's Westminster section for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. A solemn-looking man, he has taken lighthearted femininity as his motif...
Largely, this depends on what kind of a Design School Conant would like to see at the University. Will it be a school dedicated to a single doctrine of design or will it be more of a forum, where different professors espouse variations of architectural and planning philosophies, letting the...
Stubbins agrees, and he believes the school's requirements should be more stringent, if they are changed at all. "It might be better to have a smaller school of really top-notch students, doing research and learning both architectural and industrial methods." Stubbins says.
Today at the school, all agree that the three are inseparable, but some feel the program has bogged down. Students in architecture say the planners do nothing but gather facts. They are not designers in any sense. The architectural faculty accuses planning of throwing screws into the joint student programs...