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Intro~inclion lo Conference
GENTLEMEN into this buiic;ling cone the
great and small of American business. :E ant
sure that you are here today on business. Songs
of our finest idealists are businessmen; some of
our greatest poets are businessmen. ~ do not
mean that they are writing poetry or talking
icleals. They are expressing their icleals in brick
and mortar.
The businessman who puts up a beautiful
building must have something of the poet in
his soul. The businessman who erects a model
factory and thus sets the pace for others to
follow must have something of the idealist in
G. E. Silling
C. E. Silling and Associates.
Charleston, W. Va.
customers how to use it must have the spirit
of the teacher. Some of the finest, the most
wholesome, the most beautiful expressions of
n~oclern times are inspired by businessmen as
a matter of business.
:[ am told that many years ago our archi
tectural society in New York sent out no
tices stating that a panel of architects woul(1
speak at its next ([inner meeting with its sub
ject title, ''Tile Greatest Single Need of the
Architectural Profession."
The hooch of reservations was amazing; the
O ~ ~buzz of anticipation great, indeed. At the ap
his makeup. The businessman who pioneers pointe(1 hour the panel of architects arose in
with a new labor-saving device and teaches his (1ignity and saicl, "The greatest single need of
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the architectural profession is a first-cIass crack
filler," sat down, the meeting was ended and
there was unanimous agreement.
Some months ago ~ attended a meeting of
the Research Institute here in Washington on
metal panel curtain wall construction. The
learned gentlemen discussed infiltration, insu-
lation, condensation, thermal induction and
finally canoe around to deduction. If ~ under-
stood the implications correctly, they join with
the architects in the search for a first-cIass
crack filler.
There was one item of profit for the masonry
people that came out of that meeting and the
variety of metal pane! publicity that preceded
and followed it. The metal pane] men have
scared the daylights out of you people and you
are here to search yourselves. It is about time.
You were the first on the scene and you have
had the advantage of antiquity even before
recorded tinge. Also, you have had the advan-
tage of modular measure.
In seeking to gain all, some of you have to
lose your own recalcitrance. Post-war produc-
tion and consumption has developed into a
kind of industrial and economic revolution;
new products, new processes, new materials,
mechanization, automation, the thrust that
comes from the electronic brain, carbide-type
cutting tools, new high heat, heavy stress met-
als, chemistry and physics that bring artificial
fibers and amazing plastics, not to mention
atomic energy, and unbelievably fast transpor-
tation. These developments multiply into the
many changes we witness. For example, the
farmer has become a mechanized chemist and
part-time economist interested in a variety of
things. Somehow all these separate elements
must be studied in their social impact on the
community as a whole. In this welter of change
and inflation the problem of providing facili-
ties the client can pay for seems to be one of
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the main pressures behind the invention of
new products or new ways of using old prod-
ucts.
Architects' engineers, contractors, materials
manufacturers, and suppliers presently enjoy
the intimacies of a shot-gun wedding. They
study the technologies primarily in order to
survive. It is this climate that encourages us to
meet with the Building Research Institute to-
day. The Building Research Institute's confer-
ences are always objective and try to do three
things: ~ ~ ~ Tell what is new; (2) analyze ex-
isting problems; and (3) suggest things that
need to be done' including research.
The speakers on this panel are divided into
two groups. One group is made up primarily
of technical men and research men from the
masonry industry itself. We can expect them
to be prejudiced in favor of masonry. The other
group is made up of outstanding architects, en-
gineers and building authorities, both profane
and bureaucratic, or more politely, from indus-
try and government. They have not been se-
lected because they are dedicated to the use of
masonry, but because they have had broad ex-
perience with it, endows know they will be ob-
jective and forthright in their discussions.
To introduce your first session chairman ~
will now read front the closing verse on art by
Huberty Junius, whoever he is:
"The devil simply sat and grinned
As he always has since the first man sinned;
"For lee knows he will always have a part
When three men sit and tall: of art."
John Knox Shear is a provocative devil,
gracious in an insidious kind of way' incisive
and informative. He is also Editor-in-Chief of
the Architectural Record; a competent archi-
tect in his own right; a good fellow, and my
good friend. He will preside ant] introduce the
three panelists who will sit with you and talk
of architectural design.
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PART ONE
PRESIDING CHAIRMAN
John Knox Shear
Editor-in-Chief,
Architectural Record
Architectural Design
M R . S H E A :R: This is the conference ~ have been awaiting for a long
time, ever since ~ first heard that it was being planned. T am sure most of
you fee] as r ~0. We have a lot to learn here.
Mr. Richard M. Bennett, our first speaker, is a practicing architect of dis-
tinction and a member of the firm of LoebI, SchIossman 8: Bennett of Chi-
cago. He has taught and written on architecture. Currently he is repre-
senting architecture on a committee advising the State Department on its
foreign building operations. He is a Fellow and former member of the
Board of Directors of the American institute of Architects and has re-
ceived much praise and several awards for his distinguished work in resi-
clential. commercial, religious, and public buildings.
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