Word: brunfaut
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...planning; then a consulting board of design was brought together from member nations. France sent brilliant, temperamental Le Corbusier (real name: Charles Edouard Jeanneret), famous for developing the city-in-a-park idea in the '20s. The others: Australia's G. A. Soilleux, Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut, Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, Britain's Howard Robertson, Canada's Ernest Cormier, China's Ssu-ch'eng Liang, Russia's N. D. Bassov, Swe den's Sven Markelius and Uruguay's Julio Vilamajo...
...Bassov stayed up late one night figuring how many extra steps that would mean for the U.N.'s 3,200 office workers, and the elevators stayed in the center. In four months Harrison had a basic design to show the U.N. "In Europe," said Belgium's Brunfaut, "we could not imagine such rapidity...
...ground. To start with, Harrison spent four months picking the brains of an advisory panel of ten brilliant architects from ten nations. The following two pages show home-grown effects achieved by six of these consultants. They all found Harrison wide-open to ideas. Says Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut cheerfully: "He is not a businessman like the rest of American architects. He is an idealist ... a kind of aristocrat in a nation of brutes and savages...
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