Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the law was passed, interest contered on the contents of the forthcoming questionnaire about which the administration was very secretive. In mid-January the Georgia Tech and Georgia University chapters of the American Association, of University Professors and the Georgia Education Association together scheduled a conference with special Assistant Attorney General Lamar W. Sizemore for the express purpose of advancing suggestions for making the questionnaire as unobjectionable as possible...
...cultural dictates of the Nazis, Mies has led his crusade from Chicago. As director of architecture for the Illinois Institute of Technology, he has passed along his revolutionary theories to hundreds of students, has put his ideas into practice in the designing of 14 buildings built on Illinois Tech's campus. Last week Illinois Tech put on display Mies's latest design: a new building to house his own department of architecture and the Institute of Design, founded in 1937 as a new-world successor to the Bauhaus...
Skin & Bones. Mies has designed for Illinois Tech a striking, one-story glass-and-steel box, in which his theories are given full expression. The new building, to be ready next summer, achieves Mies's "universal space" by having a 120-ft. by 220-ft. area completely free of supports or other encumbrances; he turned the trick by suspending the roof from four outside steel girders. Says Architect Mies: "It is a practical thing, because it leaves the ceiling completely free of interruption. There is an esthetic reason, too. The girders draw attention. A girder is nothing...
...Mies's architectural philosophy is in his famous and sometimes derided phrase, "Less is more." This means, he says, having "the greatest effect with the least means." Some of the best examples of the less-is-more approach are among the buildings Mies has designed for the Illinois Tech campus-simple, clean-lined constructions of glass ribbed with steel, which well serve their uncomplicated purpose as lighted areas for study. Similarly, his twin glass apartment skyscrapers on Chicago's lakefront make the most of the view, although some residents complain that the summer sun beating against so much...
...moved over from the M. W. Kellogg Co. (a Pullman Inc. subsidiary that builds equipment for oil refineries) to become president and chief executive officer of Stewart-Warner Corp. (lubricating equipment, television, electronic products, auto parts, heating plants, etc.). A Californian, Archambault grew up in Montana, attended Georgia Tech, graduated from M.I.T., joined Kellogg in 1935 and worked his way up to vice president and general manager. During World War II, he headed the European division of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, won U.S. and British decorations for pioneering new weapons and equipment. At Stewart-Warner, Archambault...