Word: wurster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again in 1945 with only 800 workers. Today the smoky, sprawling plant is Western Europe's biggest chemical unit with 36,600 workers. B.A.S.F. also employs 11,000 at its Auguste-Victoria coal mine in the Ruhr. Masterminding B.A.S.F.'s comeback is its wartime head, Chairman Carl Wurster, 56, who was acquitted at Nurnberg on charges of plundering occupied countries and employing slave labor...
Retreat for Scholars. In a year of outstanding buildings, the three awards to Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons are a tribute to a small U.S. firm (total staff: 25), whose open, uncluttered designs, broad windows and lavish use of natural wood have made it the leader in one of the best regional movements in the U.S. This week's prizewinners sum up the partners' goal: to disregard any preconceived formulas, fit each design both to the terrain and to the building's occupants and purpose...
...Ford Foundation's Advanced Study Center, the firm, led by Senior Partner William Wilson Wurster, 60, dean of the University of California's School of Architecture, put together a miniature campus in six months from commission to moving day. Designed as a retreat for scholars, it is built around restful individual studies for the 38 residents, done in unpainted redwood, with secluded patios and large windows looking out over the lonely hills...
...House. Partner Theodore Bernardi, 52, who won a merit award for the pleasantly informal redwood house he designed for himself, chose a hillside site for maximum privacy and view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them...
...prizewinning partners insist that their "California" style is simply a natural adaptation to the California way of life. Says Wurster: "One doesn't want regionalism for its own sake, but only if it fits the problem." The firm's record to date has brought commissions for everything from master plans for 21 Air Force bases in the U.S. to a $14 million community project of the Ford assembly plant at Milpitas, Calif. What pleases the partners most is that clients no longer come in asking for something "modern." Says Wurster: "You can be sure that American colonists never...