Word: bogner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Added to sumptuous powder rooms would be "safety" clothes having "real style" because, according to Bogner, "women in pert, natty uniforms spruce up a place...
Only with this war are some of the leading manufacturers learning that better working conditions produce contented workers who turn out more and better products. Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of Architecture, has summed up the ideals of many industrial planners when he proposes a single story, fresh air plant where workers will perform their tasks to accompanying strains of soft music and purring hums of moving machinery...
Aside from general improvements such as-better and nearer living quarters, modernized cafeterias, and factory play-grounds, Bogner's plans include a novel system of coloring. Ceilings would be the lightest part of the plant, to give maximum effectiveness to the long fluorescent lamps running the length of the building, while walls, though also light, would be slightly darker than the ceiling. Machinery, formerly only gray, would be painted with a newly developed warm color except for danger spots, which would be a flaring scarlet...
...this utopian factory, Bogner believes that instead of pampering the worker such an ideal situation would "build an his self-respect, interest, and loyalty to his place of work. The fundamental realization of this age is that machinery in spite of their great potentialities, these and these men must be treated as human beings instead of as more machinery...
...studio masters, each of whom has charge of a single group, are Professors Walter F. Bogner, Marcel Breuer, and G. Holmes Perkins, all of whom combine their teaching with outside practice of architecture. Each student spends one year in each of the three studies, studying practical problems of building design, construction, materials, and the social utility of structures...