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Bathtubs, Beams. At week's end, the President had one request of his own to make of a caller. After a thorough inspection of the White House, Architect Lorenzo Winslow announced that the building was much worse off than anyone had suspected. It was a wonder that Harry Truman, sitting in his second-story bathtub, hadn't plunged down to the basement. A complete White House repair job would require ripping out all interior walls and beams, replacing everything up to the outer shell. The cost would be about $7,000,000 (just seven times the original estimate...
Born 60 years ago in Westphalia, Albers was nicknamed "Dante" in his youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students...
...Norwegian sheriff and two Germans walked up to Odd Nansen's house and arrested him. Odd was the son of Fridtjof Nansen, the famed Arctic explorer,* a well-known architect and a friend of Norway's royal family (which was his crime...
Harmon crumbles. He bitterly concludes that his life had always been directed by clever, domineering women, first his brilliant physician-mother, then his wife Laura (who as an architect made more money than he and treats him now as if he were a patient), and finally his two daughters, who are bright and saucy with progressive-school wisdom...
NORMAN BEL GEDDES IS MORE GIFTED IN DESIGN THAN HE IS IN OBSERVATION. THERE IS A PUMP IN THE PUMP ROOM [TIME, DEC. 13], BUILT IN AT THE LAST MOMENT BY SAM MARX, ARCHITECT. IT IS AT THE ENTRANCE AND IS OVERSCALE. TRUE, IT PUMPS NO WATER, BUT WE ARE NOT PARTICULARLY KEEN ABOUT PROMOTING WATER IN THE PUMP ROOM...