Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EDWARD FISHER JR. Groton, Mass...
France's Le Corbusier will design a massive sports stadium; Finland's Alvar Aalto is at work designing a civic center, with library and art gallery; Germany's Werner March is drafting plans for a $3,500,000 museum; Walter Gropius' Cambridge (Mass.) Architects Collaborative hopes to have a plan for a new university, with mosque, ready by next September; Italy's Designer-Architect Gio Ponti has already designed a ten-story headquarters for the Iraq Development Board and an eight-story office building for GORA (Government Oil Refineries Administration...
...sells ten different models of pastel-colored, concrete-block ranch-type houses from $6,960 (one bedroom, living room, kitchen and screened porch) to $16,260 (three bedrooms, living-dining area, two baths, garage, terrazzo floors, tile roof). The Mackles try to avoid the project look that afflicts many mass building areas by laying out streets in winding arcs, alternating models, setting houses at different angles, and surrounding them with fast-growing trees and shrubbery...
...reasons for opposing the mass gatherings, von Stade cited the chance for injury caused by firecrackers, thrown bottles, and other missiles, and the danger of fire in the dormitories...
...There are other ways of relieving tension than by holding mass gatherings," von Stade noted. He commented that students should "let off steam individually," rather than in mass groups. "If people act childishly, then we should treat them as children...