Word: wurdeman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WALTER WURDEMAN WELTON BECKET Los Angeles, Calif...
...architects," the partners had learned all about making a dollar go far. On one of their first jobs-redesigning Los Angeles' Clifton's Cafeteria in 1933-they took out their fees in meals. When their plans won first place in a competition for the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Wurdeman, a good man with a racket, spent his share of the fee to join the Westside Tennis Club-and incidentally to get some business from its Hollywood members. Soon Wurdeman & Becket were building actors' homes by the dozen. From then on, as Wurdeman says: "The graft has gone...
...Walt & Welt's home designing on a mass production basis. They put up housing for 50,000 workers in California's mushrooming war industries, and soon they had 83 assistants working for them. "It was spit and matchstick stuff," Wurdeman says, "but it made us build a big organization and got us so we weren't appalled at big jobs...
...also an official of Socony-Vacuum's General Petroleum Corp. then got the team to plan General's new $8,000,000 office building. They designed the building in "modules" - or 7-ft. sections - for easy shifting of partitions and rooms in rearranging offices. Says Wurdeman: "When times are bad, that's when this building will...
...Wurdeman & Becket think other architects could get around antiquated building codes to cut costs. Wurdeman thinks that "they just haven't presented their cases right." The partners, who netted $125,000 apiece last year, are still penny-conscious. Says Wurdeman: "I just wouldn't know how to act if a guy would say 'I don't give a damn how much it costs...