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After a year of bench-warming, some of the U.S.'s star architects were finally at work last week on defense housing. In Pittsburgh's suburb of New Kensington, not far from Aluminum Co. of America's sprawling plant, builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
Many of these big-name projects are frankly experimental. Each architect was encouraged to cut fancy figures with 15 to 25 of his houses, and Washington housers hoped to find some gold-medal ideas among them; but most of the houses were designed on more conventional lines. Government officials were leary of prefabrication which got little chance to show its merits in defense housing's inept first year. But they have finally realized that speed and low cost are persuasive claims, and from 10 to 20% of defense housing is now prefabricated...
...defense housing's first year, FWA (in charge of building) turned over almost all assignments to the Public Building Administration (PBA), which had its own architects ready to hand, left independent architects out in the cold. Cried famed Modern Architect William Lescaze: "Experts are winning this war. Architects are experts. ... At the present moment a great number of architects . . . are made to feel that their usefulness to their country is infinitely smaller than that of an 18-year-old apprentice in a flying school...
Died. William Mitchell Kendall, 85, architect; in Bar Harbor, Me. He was a designer of the old Madison Square Garden, Manhattan's Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, Harvard's Memorial Gates, the portico housing Plymouth Rock...
There are no big slums in Stockholm. And there are no flies on Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-a reputation it once again proved last week by putting on in Manhattan one of its traveling shows, Stockholm Builds: 101 careful camera studies by Architect G. E. Kidder Smith. Stockholm's houses (over 30% of them built in the last ten years) and public buildings are the world's models-famed for intelligent modern architecture, well-planned integration, neat, modest lines. The Swedes have no great architects, no great planners: their success is the community...