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Becket's latest building, the $37 million Kaiser Center, which opened in Oakland last week, is a monument to Becket's flair for fitting design and treatment to an individual business or institution. At Henry Kaiser's request, Becket designed the building to use as much as possible of the materials produced by Kaiser enterprises, e.g., aluminum. The extra work may cut Becket's profit margin, but he feels that the experience that he got by extensive use of aluminum will help him in future jobs. This year Becket expects to direct the building...
...Quincy made one radical concession to individuality: desks in seven sizes for growing scholars. Otherwise, all students passed their years together in box-shaped rooms, class by class, the bright and dull handicapping each other. This week Quincy School reopens its ancient doors, admitting 291 more students, still a monument to "egg-crate" education. For a century such schools have changed only the style of their facades-from Victorian Gothic to WPA Colonial to Neo-Revival...
...gifted, special teachers for the retarded, night classes for the aged. The air-conditioned hive that serves this honey must house carpentry shops and physics laboratories, a hall for the town meeting, and perhaps a swimming pool that adults can use too. It must impress like a monument-and be as cheap as a summer cottage. It is running out of space, money and teachers...
...remember that the words "monument to the unknown rapist" were once bitterly scribbled on a Russian war memorial in Berlin not too many years ago by Berliners whose memories are longer than yesterday's headlines...
Lloyd Center would probably never have been built if the initiative had been left to Portlanders. It is a monument to the vision and tenacity of a wiry, blue-eyed cowboy named Ralph Bramel Lloyd, who died in 1953 when his dream was only on the drawing board. The son of a Missouri Confederate Army officer, Lloyd moved to California at eleven when his family bought several thousand acres of ranch land in Ventura. One day his father, out riding, came across a grass fire, spurred his horse to the bare ground of a knoll for safety. When the fire...