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...lawyer finds himself in the home of an architect. It is a plastic bubble swelling precariously from the side of a cliff. "A home is a place where man must live harmoniously with nature," says the architect. The lawyer gets lost in the house. He pounds frantically on the plastic walls, calling for help, as the camera draws back to show him there, like a fly dying in a bottle...
...trained architect (University of Pennsylvania, '33), Chapin decided in the Depression that he would rather be an employed cartographer than a starving architect. He has since been able to combine a little of both interests: he built his own modern hilltop home in Sharon, Conn., and is currently chairman of the building committee for a $1,500,000 improvement of the Sharon Hospital...
California's demand for second houses has been so great that a new breed of architect has come into being to specialize in them (e.g., Campbell & Wong Associates. Francis Lloyd). San Franciscans, for example, stream out of their fogbound city in the late spring and summer. Those who can afford the best have summer houses along the northern Emerald Bay area of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line; the less affluent have cottages around the perimeter of the lake. Other rich Californians have summer houses on the magnificent Del Monte peninsula near Carmel and Monterey. More and more...
...legend is that he did not get the mausoleum he wanted. This was to be a statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost...
...rights. According to Felt's plan, the site would be stripped to ground level (the trains would still come and go below), and a new Madison Square Garden, seating 25,000 persons, would be built on top, flanked by two office buildings, all designed by Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman...