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...will design the atomic world-the technologist or the architect? As the world's top atomic scientists headed home from Geneva, leaving heady hints of a new atomic age behind them, Swiss Architect Rudolf Steiger was ready with an answer...
...When mankind got electricity and steam," says Steiger, "factories sprang up, and residential sections were thrown around them without planning. That's what we must avoid in the atomic age. The architect should be Number...
...Steiger, 54, a blunt bundle of energy, is Switzerland's No. 1 architect. Last week he and his partner-son, Peter Steiger, were busy checking blueprints for a mammoth Steiger-designed atomic laboratory near Geneva. Commissioned by the twelve-nation European Council for Nuclear Research, the laboratory will cover 90 acres, will incorporate such new-age elements as a synchrocyclotron and a 25 billion electron-volt proton-synchrotron (TIME...
Specialists' Hash. Steiger is convinced that architecture has failed to keep pace with technological progress and, as a result, is sacrificing its supremacy in the world abuilding. His answer has been to learn more basic technology himself, and to plug for more emphasis on balanced technological training in architectural schools...
Building by committee, says Steiger, leads to an undistinguished hash. "Today, when something must be built, a building committee is formed. The committee calls in specialists to work out their incompetent ideas. There's a specialist for concrete, a specialist for electrical engineering, a specialist for air conditioning, and finally what you might call a specialist for esthetics. That's the architect. All he gets to do is present the board with six or seven fagade projects, and the worst is picked...