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Architectural Forum/ the magazine of building / October 1958

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5 News

49 Projects

61 People

83 Forum

161 Close-ups

167 Products

191 Books

195 Excerpts

213 Abroad

Cover: Design by Ray Komai suggesting the upwaTd outlook for construction activity next year (story, page 110).

88 Editoria!, eubecription, and advertlsing data.

220 Advertlsing index.

VOLUME 100, NUMBER 4

Publl•hed monthly by T1Mm !Ne. 9 Rockefeiler P inzo, New York 20, N.Y. Entored tUI eecond.elnse mnttcr at New York, N.Y. Subacription pricc $6.60 a yenr. C 1068 TlM0 lNO. Ali rhrhts reBcrved.

EDITORIA.L

The politics of federai architecture

CURRENT ARCHITECTURE

A final look a t Brussels 104

À retrospective appraisal of one of his-tory's most successful ezlllibition bwildings- the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels Favr.

Factories planned f or people 128

Four ezamples of good planning and architecture used to reduce employee problems: 1. Lockheed's blueprint far growth. 2. Texas l nstrument bwilds a 800-acre industrial park. S. McDonnell Aircraft's environment far engineers. 4. I BM's protected surroundings.

THE BUSINESS OF BUILDING

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1959: Building's first $50-billion year 110

FORUM's annual foreoast of the bwilding outlook indicates that the boom in public bwilding will help push nezt year's building outlays 5 per cent above this year.

New schools f or "free" 120

Some home bwilders, including William Levitt, are providing schools with their houses.

GALLERY

Shi p sha pes and shadows 122

Time adds a softening touch to the Unes and forms of ships as well as to bwildings.

ART OF ARCHITECTURE

Tempie on a hilltop - almost 114

Critfoism of the new headqiiarters bwilding for the G,uarantee Mutual Life lns1vrance Co. in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mr. Robie knew what he wanted 126

Àn interview with the man who, with Frank Lloyd Wright, produced one of Àmerica's most famous hoi1ses.

TECHNOLOGY

Age of the plastic roof 144

N ew ohemioals and new ideas are ohanging yesterday's oonoep·ts of roof construction.

Remodeling: banking as usual 150

Witll the walls and jloors stripped from arot1111d its of!ìces in an old New York office bwilding, the Ba11'kers Tru.st conduots ò11.si11ess as 11s11al.