Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfettered. To plan the new city, Indian officials picked Albert Mayer, 52, a Manhattan architect. During World War II, when he was stationed in India as a lieutenant colonel of Army engineers, Mayer went out of his way to get to know some of the problems of India, and its people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister. When the Punjab hired Mayer, Nehru said: "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered with the traditions of the past." Designer Mayer was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "To a planner it is tremendously exciting...
...Mayer first consulted microclimatologists, who study climate in specific areas; with their help he hopes to achieve what Major l'Enfant failed to accomplish in Washington-an arrangement of buildings that will catch any stray breeze...
...Mayer's Punjab city plan is composed of units called superblocks. Each superblock covers a rectangle approximately 1,000 yards long and 500 yards wide. A superblock is designed to house 5,000 people, includes a central area with elementary schools, playgrounds and parks, and a shopping center. Three superblocks make up a district, with the high schools, swimming pool and auditorium for the district in the center superblock. Only footpaths, bicycle and bullock-cart paths cross the superblocks: all bus, truck and automobile traffic goes around them; for direct traffic to the capitol from outside the city...
Most Charming. Novel as much of this is, Mayer has tried to plan for "a city in the Indian idiom." In his shopping centers, he has provided for the open bazaars of the East as well as the closed stores of the West. Of the small, self-contained districts Mayer says: "The neighborhood principle is particularly important in India, where people usually come from villages." Mayer is also advising Indian architects on the kind of buildings to be used in the new city. His idea of the capitol is a cone-shaped building like the Buddhist monuments which Mayer...
Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington High; Kurt Pollak, Boston English High; Albert Reichert, Roxbury Memorial School; Donald F. Schneiderman, Roxbury Memorial School; Mayer Rubenstein, Chelsea High School; Leo F. McNamara, Jr., Clinton High School; Edward E. Morse, Gardner High School; Robert A. Lemire, Lowell High School; Shahan A. Adrian, Malden High School; Leon Friedman, Malden High School; Allan R. Robinson, Marblehead High; Richard C. Lundin, Medford High School; David M. Whalen, Medford High School; Arthur I. Brown, Jr., Newton High School; Robert G. Funke, North Attleboro High; William F. Pickard, Jr., Quincy High School; Wilmon B. Chipman, Reading High School...