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Beyond the Past. This subtle architectonic paradox was no doubt far from the minds of the directors of Lever Brothers Co. (Lux, Lifebuoy, Pepsodent) when they first approached an architect to design their new U.S. headquarters. The persuasive arguments that set the design and the revolutionary innovations of the building that resulted are both characteristic of the architects they chose. In the 16 years since it was founded in a one-room office in. Chicago, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has made itself one of the biggest names in U.S. architecture. Its billion dollars-worth of buildings stretch across...
...client," Architect Skidmore once said, "usually feels confidence and pride that a structure is being designed for his particular problem ... In this way modern expression of his problem seems natural, and contemporary architecture has sold itself...
David Kenneth Specter, of Brooklyn and Dunster House. Studying to be an architect, Specter is a member of the Band and the Outing Club, and was art editor of the 1951 Year Book...
...edifice will contain an auditorium for theater and dance, a common room, music studios, and work shops. Planned to cost at least $400,000, the building "will be perhaps, the symbolic center of college life," believes architect Marcel Breuer, ex-professor at Harvard's Department of Architecture...
After a successful tour of Italy Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Paris with his autobiographical exhibit called "Sixty years of living Architecture." The 82-year-old architect was obviously pleased with one of his recent awards, the Gold Medal of the City of Florence. Said he: "Dante wanted it and never got it. Then they go ahead and give it to an American from the tall grass of the western prairies...