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...principal of Scarborough, Arthur J. W. Plumtree, said, "He made what probably would have been a glorified high school, into one of the most exciting colleges in the country...
Andrews' approach to architecture is the cause of the excitement. "Movement and communication between people are the critical factors in our office," said the tall, stocky, blond-haired Australian in his Toronto office early this week. With Scarborough and Gund Hall in mind, Andrews, who is also the new chairman of the University of Toronto Architecture Department, reflected, "Education has to be about communication...
Sert's Holyoke Center and Andrews' Scarborough are rationalistic buildings. The process of design of each individual architect determines the form of the building, most students of architecture will tell you. Andrews' process is clear in the designing of the Ontario college...
Time and location were the biggest problems with Scarborough. The University of Toronto wanted the building finished by September, 1966. Andrews was commissioned in July, 1964. He was forced to design the building while it was under construction. He couldn't have used steel even if he had wanted to because "I didn't know exactly what was going on top even while we were pouring the concrete for the foundation. Steel requires precise knoweldge of stresses which we obviously didn't have," said the young designer...
Andrews works closely not only with the contractor, but with educators (the 36-year-old Dean of Scarborough worked very closely with Andrews), sociologists, economists, and other specialists. System programming, according to Andrews, is the critical factor in reaching his goals of movement and communication. A typical application is to the circulation plan of people. With system programming, he says, the designer reaches, a rational decision on the number of elevators or the width of corridors for a building...