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Furled Pickets. The architect of this improbable journalistic edifice is a onetime jeweler who invaded Dover for the simple reason that it was there and waiting. Until 1953, Bernard John Smyth's horizon did not extend beyond Renovo, Pa. There, after selling his share of the family jewelry store, he bought the Renovo Daily Record. Then some friend told him about Dover. Smyth froze like a pointer. If Renovo could support a daily with 3,000 inhabitants, why couldn't Dover, with 7,000 residents and a thriving girdle factory...
Some months ago my wife and I came to Cambridge after an absence of three years. Just before we departed, driving on Mount Auburn St., we saw the new building by Sert. I stopped the car and looked the building over, not with the eye of a professional architect, but of a person who takes an interest in his surroundings. The building appeared to me a very good one indeed. It was exciting, full of movement, possessed vitality and reflected not the vision of Christopher Wren or Thomas Jefferson but of our own time and our own temper. At that...
...Rockland County, N.Y. Architect Murray Blatt is designing and building contemporary treatments, such as a split-level with a difference, featuring especially wide eaves, a wrap-around deck, and a carport tucked under the living space...
...prototype for a development, Architect Thomas C. Lehrecke designed a house for his own family at Tappan, N.Y., concentrating on combining flexibility with low cost ($28,000). The exterior is of redwood, Douglas fir and concrete block, accented with horizontal white panels...
...taken seriously, not because it was flippant but because it was whining, irresponsible, and ignored pertinent facts. It stated unreasonable opinions in the manner of a college senior who should be past adolescence. The editorial annoyed me not because I am a disciple of Sert, or any other architect, but because it did not state relevant architectural facts...