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Buildings that look like barns-which many people consider very beautiful-have made the reputation of Pietro Bel-luschi, architect of Portland, Ore. This week for the first time he plans to hang out his own shingle. He will hang it on the same Jefferson Street house (under Portland's Vista ''Suicide" Bridge), long occupied by the defunct firm of which he had been a member (A. E. Doyle & Associate...
...Pietro Belluschi was born in Ancona, Italy in 1899, served as an officer in the Italian Army in World War I. After getting an architectural degree in Rome in 1922, Belluschi came to the U.S. to study engineering at Cornell. He was hired in 1925 by Portland's architect A. E. Doyle. Two years later he was head designer for the firm. Says he: "Barns lack pompousness. To say my houses look like barns is flattering...
Above all, he considered himself a scientist, which he was. In an era when "test pilot" was often a synonym for "daredevil," he persuaded manufacturers that the test pilot should be consulted before the plane was built. "You would not call in an architect after you had built a house," he said...
Erastus Salisbury Field wrote a twelve-page description of his vast architectural dream. In it he declared: "I am not a professed architect, and some things about it may be faulty. Be that as it may, my aim has been to get up a brief history of our country or epitome, in a monumental form. . . . The towers are connected with suspension bridges, and the cars are going to and from the centennial exhibition, which is on the top of the central tower...
...many U.S. race tracks the clubhouse restaurant faces the paddock so that fans can watch the paddock odds-board while feeding. For the Hipódromo's customers Architect Sloan has shown even more consideration. The club's eight oval bars and four restaurants all face the track so that customers can watch the races as well as the tote board...