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based on detall of Kenzo Tange's Kagawa prefectural office {story, page 96).

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VOLUME lll, NUMBER 8

Publlshcd monthly by TIME !Ne. O Rockcfellcr Pinza, New York 20, N.Y.

Enicrcd ne eccond-clnee mntter al New York, N.Y. and nt nd<litionnl mnlling officce. Subacription prlce $6.150 n ycnr. C> 1969 TIME lNO, Ali rlghts rescrvcd.

ART OF ARCHITECTURE

Renaissance in Japan 96

Fow radical Japanese-and a famous Frenchma11r-are fighting old wa11s in arder to give J apan some ezcellent buildings and a new tradition.

Moscow looks at U.S. architecture 110

For the first time, the Russians have been able to judge the U.S. building arts-a report on our architectural exhibit at the Moscow Fair.

The Mies-less Johnson 114

"What comes after Seagram?" is being answered in Philip Johnson's latest designs-an unezpected classical twist in modern architecture.

A cage f or designers 127

À loosely knit organization in Pasadena called Community Facilities Planners is united under mesh roof by Architects S'Tliith cf Williams.

N oteworthy buildings 130

The hezagons of a New York Unitarian church ... the clean-cut frame of a poolhouse in the Catskills . .. the sunshades of a Canadian nurses' home and a Tulsa headquarters ... tlze diplomacy of the U.S. Embassy in Ghana.

Archi tectural spellbinder 136

Volatile Vincent Scully has been making architect111·e exciting at Yale.

Craftsman's choice 138

À showroom for Scandinavian good taste is remodeleà from three olà row houses in Cambridge, Mass. by The .:Jrchitects Collaborative-a gallery.

BUSINESS OF BUILDING

The future of Title I 107

The mess in New York do es noi go mnch beyond the city and its locai administration. Elsewherr, lhe 11rba11 1·e11, wal program is working well.

The 100 biggest contractors 124

The top bllilders' volume rose 8 per cui/ /asi year; 95 ,ti1'ms join ed //1<, list.

TECHNOLOGY

Plastics move up in building 144

Three years ago the buildi11.17 plaslics wcre 'lllcrcly laboratory idoos. Today a number of them ha·vo come in/o promi11 e11/ use in tlie building industry.