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WHEN we queried our San Francisco "bureau last week about the prize-winning firm of architects, Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons (see ART), the answer was already blueprinted. No two reporters were ever more on top of their story than Bureau Chief Richard Pollard and Correspondent Charles Mohr. Pollard, it turned out, had commissioned the firm to design a house for him on Belvedere Island in San Francisco Bay (construction starts this week). Mohr rents Architect Donn Emmons' own house, high on a hill above Mill Valley, overlooking the bay. Neither of these glasshouse enthusiasts had a stone to throw...
Biggest poser for the architects was Pollard's snoring, which has been so loud that his wife Peggy often banished him to a guest room. Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons solved the problem by designing a sort of glass-enclosed sponsor's booth in a corner of the master bedroom. Once the house is finished, Dick may be seen but not heard...
Although no definite word has been received, the new dean may possibly be one of three men. It is understood that they are William G. Holford, Eero Saarinen, and William W. Wurster...
Dean of the M.I.T. architect department for many years, Wurster, is now Dean of the Department of Architecture at the University of California in Berkeley and is in private practice. In 1943, Wurster was a fellow in the Graduate School of Design...
Enrollment in Architectural schools should be kept below 200 students stressed William Wurster, chairman of the Department of Architecture at MIT. He foresaw "dilution of what a student can do if he loses intimate contact with his instructors...