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...industrial park, and another dozen or so are negotiating for space. The 14-story apartment building, which has not even been topped off, already has a waiting list for occupancy, and 78 of the 270 town houses and detached homes nearing completion have been sold. Says Planner-Architect Victor Gruen, who has designed eight New Towns himself: "Reston is the most courageous effort toward the building of a New Town yet undertaken. It is my fervent hope, and I am sure all progressive architects and planners share this hope, that the New Town of Reston will succeed. If so, this...
...Erich S. Gruen; B.A. (1956) Columbia, B.A. (1960) Oxford, Ph.D. (1964) Harvard...
Twenty-four miles east of Sacramento, Architect Victor Gruen has master-planned a 9,800-acre project called El Dorado Hills, which in 15 or 20 years will be a network of twelve villages with a combined population of 75,000 in apartments, as well as houses ranging in price from $20,000 to $100,000. Each village will be centered around a single recreational activity?boating, golf, riding, swimming...
Another big Gruen project is a brand-new community called Laguna Niguel, 48 miles south of Los Angeles, in which about 40,000 people will live, work and play on 7,100 acres of rolling range land. The approach of Laguna Niguel's developer, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of Boston, illustrates the difference between modern real estate development and old-fashioned lay-it-out and put-it-up methods. Before Master Planner Gruen was called in, the location, population growth, family income and industrial potential of the site were analyzed by two market analysts and placed under close scrutiny...
...room closed for lack of students. In high school and college bands she played the oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. They have one crayon-crazy daughter, aged four...