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...Jack Rohe Howard, 42, Roy's only son, will succeed his father as president. A graduate of Yale ('32), Jack Howard worked on Scripps's Indianapolis Times and Washington News, ran the chain's radio stations and finally became his father's chief troubleshooter...
...Beaux Arts ("best things of the past") tradition, but quickly looked beyond it. With John Merrill, 55, and their seven partners, six associate partners, 13 participating associates and 700-odd dedicated young draftsmen, engineers and experts, they have taken the ideas of Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and other pioneers of the International (or United Nations Building) School and moulded them to the needs of their clients...
...laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...
...dollar lot, with a sheer, severe front of plate glass, white marble and thermolux (a translucent sandwich made of spun glass insulator between two sheets of plate glass), galleries with collapsible walls, library, auditorium, projection rooms and roof terrace. The chairs and desks which furnish it (by van der Rohe, Breuer, Aalto, et al.) are in themselves a show of industrial fine...