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...cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
...will be known as the John C. Gray Collection, in memory of a former member of the Law School faculty. For the purpose, a wing of the Law School library reading room was entirely redecorated and refurnished so far as possible in the manner of a home library. The architect was John W. Ames, Harvard '92, of Cambridge, Mass...
...present head of this family concern. A shrewd, eccentric Yankee, he is bald and sharp-featured, likes to tug at his eyebrows and play the violin, organ, piano; he also likes to fish and fly kites. When he built a $75,000 Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room clad only in khaki pants and moccasins, with green birch lice...
...wood than he did. He also learned that the tradition of submitting building plans to an astrologer was not superstitious but practical. The seer turned out to be an expert on such matters as drainage, prevailing winds. the varying angle of sunlight through the year-a subtle factor that Architect Raymond now scrupulously studies...
...publication: Architectural Details, published last week by The Architectural Forum. It contained not a word of theory but 116 pages of photographs and drawings of building techniques developed in Japan. In them and in furniture beautifully handmade after designs by his wife, Noémi Pernessin Raymond, the architect demonstrated his principle: "nothing wasted, nothing inappropriate." Most interesting to readers and exhibition visitors were several feats in reinforced concrete: the serene and summery Tokyo Golf Club, light-looking but earthquake-and-typhoon-proof homes, the remarkable Women's Christian College in Tokyo (see cut) of precast and reinforced concrete...