Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parts Pool. The Eastern-TWA deal is not the first instance of cooperation between cost-conscious airlines. In fact, with aircraft maintenance bills already exceeding $1.4 billion a year, or one-quarter of the total operating budgets of U.S. carriers, sharing of maintenance costs has become increasingly common. Airlines flying Boeing 707s utilize the same spare-parts pool. United Airlines in San Francisco services jet aircraft for ten other airlines. In San Diego, "Pacific Southwest Airlines operates a training program for pilots from such lines as Nippon, Alitalia and Braniff...
Morris was only partly conscious of the absurdity of his position, but it may have unconsciously disturbed him. He was naturally a playful, jovial fellow, yet the end of his life was cursed by explosive rages, which may have betrayed his awareness that the world was not following the course he had set for it. He believed that industrial division of labor, which Marx saw as a tool of the socialist apocalypse, was simply the proliferation of stultifying jobs. Yet the descendants of Morris' socialist working men have now settled for the machine-made blessings of the welfare state...
Aside from the conscious and obvious deference Katayama shows to Le Corbusier's building, there are more subtle relationships between the two designers. Katayama's white panel boxes have no curves, only planes and right angles that are contraforms to set off the flows in Thonet's wood. One wonders if Katayama had in mind Le Corbusier's statement that "the right angle is the primordial sign of the ordering and organizing spirit." And just as Carpenter Center has no real front or back--its axis diagonal to Quincy Street and entrance buried in the middle--so too Katayama...
Nothing less than the total space is Katayama's concern here. He says that the table and chair where the guard sits, even the clock on that table are as much a part of his design as the conscious making of white space in the Thonet poster...
Scarborough happens rather well both inside and out. His process of in-depth study, synthesis, and design combined with his office's use of "more bloody system programming and computer time" than any other firm in architecture-conscious Toronto...