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...Plan E in Cambridge proved a startling success. Cambridge government was no different from Lowell's or Waltham's. It was contented and corrupt when Plan E was adopted; its major had just gone to jail for accepting a 30 percent kickback from an architect who did city work...
What should an architect try to do, anyway? Said Lancaster: "The role of the architect lies between that of the plumber and the sculptor, but seldom midway. If, like the majority of 19th Century architects, he is an esthetic snob, he will get as close to the sculptor as he can. If, like most contemporary artists, he is an inverted snob, he will suck up to the plumber . . . Their conflicting theories [are] almost exactly complementary and, in my view, equally suspect...
Wake Forest hired a Manhattan architect to plan a new campus down to the last magnolia tree, sold its old one to the Southern Baptist Convention. The architect drew plans for a new chapel, university center, library, science building, gymnasium, four dormitories for men and two for women. The college will add other buildings later...
Coventrians, who had first look at the entries, expressed their contempt in a colorful string of nicknames: "the grand piano," "the Kremlin," "the pork pie," "the egg-in-a-cup," "the beehive." Even the winning entry, a conservatively modern stone, glass, concrete and steel structure by Scottish Architect Basil Spence, was compared unenthusiastically to a cinema, a factory and a block of flats...
...Architect Spence, 44, "nearly passed out" when he heard his design had been chosen. He had worked on it after hours, for relaxation from his chores as designer of the Festival of Britain's Sea & Ships Building and Glasgow University's new atomic-research laboratory. In his design he conscientiously followed all the requirements set down by the Bishop of Coventry and his advisers, incorporated the spire of the old cathedral as an important part. He also added a few ideas of his own, e.g., a chapel in the form of a crusader's tent, zigzagging walls...