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...Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...
Becket, 58, has won the title "The Businessman's Architect" by giving businessmen what they want and need in buildings, paying close attention to the balance books as well as the plumb lines. So successful is the formula that his Welton Becket & Associates is the world's largest singly owned architectural and engineering firm...
When morning arrives the details of the story become clear. A French actress, in Hiroshima for the filming of an anti-war movie has had a casual liaison with a Japanese architect. The architect tries to persuade her to remain in the city for another few days. She refuses, yet he pursues her in a strange and melancholy journey through the city. At one point she begins to tell him of an affair she had had with a German soldier during the war. The soldier was killed by a French sniper and shortly thereafter she went mad. Even...
...affair with the Japanese architect, it turns out, is to a large part, an attempt to re-live her earlier affair, though this point, and its importance in her mental constitution is not realized by the architect himself. Throughout the film there is this sort of vagueness, a lack of complete understanding, as though the shock of the war had left a different imprint upon everyone it touched. The only real point of contact between the French woman and the Japanese architect lies in their hatred of the war, a hatred arising from two completely different ideas of what...
...master" career teachers (earning $15,000 a year, Trump proposes) and assistants, this sort of schedule requires a different kind of school planning. Though acoustics are a problem (no really soundproof movable partition has been perfected), flexible walls can help turn the trick. One arresting example is Architect John Lyon Reid's new (1958) Mills High School in Millbrae, Calif. Though built to stand 100 years, Mills follows an industrial "loft plan" in which none of the interior walls is structural. By adjusting a few nuts and bolts, walls can be shifted overnight...