Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experienced administrator. A former oceanographer and director of the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, he was honored by the National Academy of Sciences in 1964 for "Outstanding Contributions to Oceanography." The same year he became Dean of Research at the University of California. As science advisor to Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall in 1962, he served as chairman of the Pakistan Project, which conducted a general review of the agricultural conditions in West Pakistan. Also, he was one of the five permanent foreign members of the Indian Commission on Education, which is now concluding its final report...
...TRANSPORTATION. Creation of a Cabinet-level Department of Transportation that would absorb a heterogeneous horde of agencies (total budgets: $6 billion) which are now scattered through the federal bureaucracy with responsibilities ranging from regulation of Great Lakes pilotage (Commerce) to the Government-run Alaska Railroad (Interior...
...idea of a functioning façade -one that expresses interior spaces-is not a freshly minted product. Le Corbusier, in his last buildings, was jutting monks' cells out into space, making air funnels into sculpturesque "light cannons." Britain's "New Brutalists" have made sinewy decoration out of external electrical conduits. Philadelphia Architect Louis Kahn has made feudal towers out of air intake and exhaust stacks. Today's architects, in making virtues out of plain necessities, may yet learn how to rival the medieval master masons who turned water spouts into sculpted gargoyles...
When Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall unveiled plans for the new Ellis Island national shrine last week, he set in motion the wheels that in some eight to ten years, with the help of about $12 million, will make some such conversation possible. The overgrown, 27.5-acre island in New York's harbor through which passed more than 16 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954 is about to be redone, partially as a collection of romantic ruins, in part as a great reinforced concrete memorial facing on its own open, grassy plaza...
...Priced in Italy at $2,270, the four-passenger car is not quite the cheapest Alfa-Romeo. For several years, the company has had a plainer, less well-padded Giulia 1300 on the market at $2,080. The new 1300 TI model, with a more powerful engine and stylish interior, is calculated to appeal to customers who want comfort and speed at a moderate price...