Word: design
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the new graduate school housing center is completed in 1950, it will represent a revolution in architectural design, at least as far as conservative Harvard goes. For the dormitories are a product of the seven members of Architects Collaborative, all of whom are disciples of the functionalist school of design...
...concrete terms, this means that the new buildings will lack the ornament and decoration of undergraduate Houses, and even more important, will be far simpler in internal design and structure...
...virtue of the Graduate School design is that the regularity will cut building time and labor, costs far below average, making construction problems simpler. Standard spacing will even make partial pre-fabrication possible in some cases. As far as hard cash goes, the designers estimate is about $3,000 on each student, whereas the undergraduate Houses cost over...
Leading the secularist opposition was the United Workers Party (Israel's second largest) which insists on complete separation of church and state. The United Workers last week charged the government with "a design to force religion on the soldiers" by closing army kitchens on Yom Kippur, providing only bread and jam to "thousands of soldiers who did not want to fast." Other secularists demanded a government investigation of an army commander who (they said) had marched 600 soldiers to a synagogue...
...Realize?" Meanwhile, more & more things (not including international relations) came to be held together by screws, bolts and nuts. Their shape and kind were in chaos. In 1861 the Franklin Institute got together a group of engineers who adopted the design of William Sellers as the standard U.S. screw thread. Without it, the unified U.S. railway system could hardly have been built...