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...architect, 68-year-old Saarinen believes the building of towns is an architect's job. Because he is an artist rather than a theoretician, his town planning has. followed no rigid formula. Aside from his own students, who were able to watch his deft civic surgery at first hand, few contemporaries have fully understood his method of work. To explain that method, Planner Saarinen has been writing a monumental treatise called The City. Last week the manuscript of The City was completed...
Undismayed, Architect Kahn filled his partners' places with his younger brothers Louis, Moritz and Felix, kept an eye out for a still younger brother Julius, who was just finishing college. His faith in the Kahn family was not misplaced. Louis is still Albert's chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which...
Weekly Pay: $45. Albert Kahn's personality still reflects that curious mixture of shrewd materialism and esthetic refinement that has made him the prototype of the machine-age architect. Methodical in his working hours, he gets to the office early every morning, drives himself incessantly until evening. Each week he solemnly accepts the weekly paycheck of $45 which he has been getting for the past 40 years, carefully turning over $40 of it to his wife and keeping $5 for "lunches and extras...
Though his own tastes in architecture are conservative (about once a year he designs and builds a prim little conventional house just for the fun of it), Kahn considers the leaders in U.S. architecture to be Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Cret and Eliel Saarinen. About his own work as architect laureate to U.S. industry, he is modestly matter-of-fact. Says he: "Architecture is 90% business...
...Richard Ney) is down from Oxford with an acute case of maturity and social consciousness. There are the youngsters (Christopher Severn and Clare Sandars). Mrs. Miniver (a suburban Candida) indulges the deliciously guilty feeling of having overspent her allowance on a gaudy hat. Mr. Miniver can overstep his architect's income for a sporty new car. Tomorrow will always balance the books...