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Introduction to Conference
Introduction to Conference
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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.
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Post-war production 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 metals, chemistry and physics that bring artificial fibers and amazing plastics, not to mention atomic energy, and unbelievably fast transportation. These developments multiply into the many changes we witness.
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Currently he is representing 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 received much praise and several awards for his distinguished work in resiclential.
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