Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overruns on poor planning by the admirals. Repeated changes in specifications, for instance, have been made after a contract has been negotiated and even while the ship was being built. According to Electric Boat, this plan-as-you-build technique caused at least 40,000 alterations in the design of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Most of these changes created a ripple effect, because shifting the location of one piece of equipment usually meant modifying dozens of other parts of the ship...
...first director, Jules Prown, chose as architect Louis Kahn, whose strong-thewed volumes and subtle sense of the interplay of light and material had already produced the best new museum building in America−the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, opened in 1972. Kahn accepted the job and designed a four-story box, dedicated to light: a building without gimmicks or stylistic narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale concrete, blond wood and natural linen wall coverings provided a strictly subordinate background to the paintings. (The architect never lived to see it finished; he died in 1974.) This unpretentious...
...lecture, part of the Gund Lecture Series at the Graduate School of Design, Proxmire compared the aid that the federal government has given to cities since 1957 with the amount of money that cities themselves have provided for improvement...
David G. Hughes '47, Mason Professor of Music, said last week his amendment allows a student "with exceptional background and ability to design for himself a program that in specific circumstances might be more appropriate than the Core...
...disputes the efficiency of MLS, but for three years an increasingly bitter international argument has gone on about whose design shall be chosen as standard equipment for the world. Australia and the U.S., plus France, Germany and Britain, had all had competing designs. By last week, when technical experts from more than 60 countries gathered in Montreal for a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the struggle had degenerated into a rancorous technological dogfight between the U.S. and Britain. Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic...