Word: uncomfort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I began," says Albert Kahn, "the real architects would design only museums, cathedrals, capitols. The office boy was considered good enough to do factory buildings. I'm still that office boy." He still makes other architects uncomfort able by calling architecture "90% business and 10% art." Unlike his equally functional-minded contemporary, Frank Lloyd Wright, who gets a free hand from his clients, Kahn preaches to his staff that the client's analysis of the problem is the first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry...
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