Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaning back in his chair, jacket off, cigarette hanging from his mouth, and sleeves rolled up, Andrews continued, "Sert (Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Design School) has a great influence on me. I came to Harvard from Sydney with the attitude of architecture-as-art. Sert didn't give me any formula for design, but I left him with the attitude that humans are the thing." Andrews received his masters from the Design School in 1958, when he moved his base of operations to Toronto...
Sert's Holyoke Center and Andrews' Scarborough are rationalistic buildings. The process of design of each individual architect determines the form of the building, most students of architecture will tell you. Andrews' process is clear in the designing of the Ontario college...
Time and location were the biggest problems with Scarborough. The University of Toronto wanted the building finished by September, 1966. Andrews was commissioned in July, 1964. He was forced to design the building while it was under construction. He couldn't have used steel even if he had wanted to because "I didn't know exactly what was going on top even while we were pouring the concrete for the foundation. Steel requires precise knoweldge of stresses which we obviously didn't have," said the young designer...
...time factor worked in Andrews' favor. The University, afraid of slowing design and thus construction, allowed him a relatively free hand in the design...
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...