Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student attitude can best be judged by the decision of the Student Government to ask Mr. Andrews to design their new Student Union building. Subsequently, you printed a letter from Mr. Robert Yelton, a second year student in the Graduate School of Design, in which he criticized the appointment of a single architect and maintained that there should be an inter-disciplinary group drawn from such disciplines as sociology, economics, politics, and psychology to work out "a comprehensive approach to the design of the environment...
...sympathetic to Mr. Yelton's point of view, but I suggest that this is exactly the approach that Mr. Andrews will take. He is strongly opposed to the concept of architecture as objet d'art. He believes very intensely that design is only a means of embodying the total function of a building. He is immensely sensitive to the needs of the users of a building, and he constantly sees a building as part of a larger social environment. I think what you will get from Mr. Andrews is the kind of approach that Mr. Yelton describes without the cumbrous...
...motif reflects the organ's origin more than two years ago in Fisk's Gloucester shop. After design and preliminary assembly there, installation in the Chapel began last March. Fisk has "been working night and day since May" to voice, or tune, its 4500 pipes, John Ferris, University organist and choirmaster, said yesterday...
...group's newly renovated offices on Arrow Street look like something out of Blow Up. The main studio with its vaulted 20-foot ceiling is painted white. It is both cluttered and spacious, with cut-out magazine pictures, photographs of African natives, and brightly-colored design sketches all over the walls. Hanging above the doorway is a huge blueprint of the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts, which Freeman and his comrades are turning into a World War II Memorial...
...features a photograph of a young executive of the company, and his own words: "Phillips have given me a chance to 'create' myself ... I feel I am becoming a more complete person." He describes how his changing interests led him from the lab to the semi-plant, to process design, to market research, to international sales development...