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...Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between conflicting principles, what follows turns out to be a tussle between neurotic pinheads. At one point. Cooper dynamites several blocks worth of a housing project to assert his artistic integrity. Blowing hot & cold on Cooper's ambitions, Massey finally puts a bullet through his own head after commissioning Cooper...
...Pasadena, Calif, chapter of the American Institute of Architects earnestly resolved that its members for one year should address each other (even in conversation) as "Architect" instead of "Mister," to test whether the title added to the dignity and business volume of the profession...
...world's top architects, including France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, had joined in deciding what the U.N. headquarters, on Manhattan's East Side, should look like. When their tentative plan was first announced (TIME, June 2, 1947), it raised a storm of protest. Howled one architect: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars...
Nonetheless, the plan for the most startling part of U.N.'s headquarters, the Secretariat, was completed. It had been supervised by Architect Wallace K. Harrison, who also helped design Rockefeller Center. Described this week in detail in the June issue of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, it was bound to stir up a second storm: the final blueprints were even more strikingly "modern" than the original...
...assorted neighbors. Taken by itself as a work of architecture, the building is a masterpiece. Dean Hudnut of the School of Design calls it "one of the most subtle and original works in the University, a very clever fusion of three German traditions." The building, designed by a Munich architect, manages to gather under one roof a happy combination of a Baroque court, a Romanesque hall, and a Gothic chapel...