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CELEBRATING its 100th anniversary in Washington this week, the American Institute of Architects got down to a five-day series of speeches, panels and discussion groups on the past and future of U.S. architecture. Looking back over the past 100 years, a photographic exhibit of some 200 black-and-white photographs singled out 65 high points of U.S. building, from Richard Upjohn's 1853 Victorian Wyman Villa to Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel Crown Hall, built last year at the Illinois Institute of Technology (TIME, July 2). Looking to the future, the A.I.A. also presented...
Twentieth century architects have managed to clean up much of the clutter inside and outside their buildings, but one spot has been missed: the area below the knees. This point came forcibly to Architect Eero Saarinen's attention about five years ago, when he "suddenly noticed that even the most modern room was a slum of legs." Last week Architect Saarinen took the wraps off a slum clearance project that he has been coaxing along secretly for four years at his Bloomfield Hills, Mich, office (TIME, July 2). His solution: a revolutionary design for one-legged, pedestal-based chairs...
...Architect Saarinen, whose office turns out multimillion-dollar projects for big corporations-General Motors, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.-has kept up furniture as a sideline ever since he designed his first piece (a bed for himself) at 16. He was co-winner of the Museum of Modern Art's Organic Design competition in 1941; his "Womb Chair," designed in 1946, remains one of the bestselling modern chairs ever made...
...inside. In April the young refugees were informed that their design had won the first prize of 60,000 zlotys, or $15,000 (before a recent devaluation shrank it). Last week, as part of the prize, Witold was waiting for free tickets to fly to Poland and visit his architect father. Said he: "The significant thing about this isn't a prize. The Poles are returning to Western-style architecture...
Twelve good men and true, with a boy's life in their hands. They take a vote: eleven for conviction and one-the architect-for acquittal. "Boyoboy," says the garageman, "there's always...