Word: avion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gropius' New Kensington project is only the most notable of a flock of new defense houses being built by the country's best architects. Already complete and occupied are the sombrero-eaved cottages which Los Angeles' Richard J. Neutra designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island...