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Some architects have gone back to nature-and more should. So argues Manhattan Engineer Fred M. Severud in the current ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. Says he: "[There are] few problems in structural design which Nature has not already met and solved. By our own standards, her designs are structurally more efficient and esthetically more satisfactory than ours." Some examples...
...Morning glories do not split open when bees make crash landings on them because five vertical ribs reinforce the blossom, and its overhanging lip holds it together. Frank Lloyd Wright "consciously duplicates" the principle in the columns in his Johnson's Wax building near Milwaukee, says Severud...
...Engineer Severud does not go so far as Architect Wright, who thinks that Manhattan buildings should have floors which ascend spirally. Says Severud: "It is inconvenient to live and work on surfaces which are not flat and level...
Special Scholarships: Melvin Morris, of Buffalo, N. Y., B.Arch. Carnegie Institute of Technology 1932. Gordon Millard Severud, of Winona, Minn., B.Arch. University of Minnesota...
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