Journal of The Arii~dcan :Institute o lA.RCHITECTS . BERTRAM GOODHUE June, 1948 More Houses and Better Values The Architect and the Public A Monument to Robert Mills Ceiling Zero Salt Lake City The White House South Portico Construction Industry's Chills and Fever 35c ~UBLISHED MONTHLY AT THE OCTAGON, WASHINGTON, D. C. JOURN.fiL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS JUNE, 1948 VoL. IX, No. 6 Contents The Architect and the Public . 243 Ceiling Zero 273 By Howard A. Swann By William Dixon Slzay Salt Lake City 248 Architects Read and Write: By Lio yd Snedaker Architecture and The A. I. A. 276 By Chester Nagel Clothing for Salt Lake City 252 Sunlight and the Hospital More Houses and Better Values 253 Patient 277 By William J. Levitt By Benjamin R. Sturges Honors 256 Early Days at M. I. T. 278 A Monument to Robert Mills 257 By Walter II. Kilham, By Edwin Bateman Morris F.A.I.A. Competition Winners 261 Architectural Education 278 The Construction Industry's By Allan Ii. Neal Chills and Fever . 263 Books ff! Bulletins 279 By William Stanley Parker, Calendar 280 F.A.l.A. Where Do We Go from Here? 267 The Editor's Asides 281 By Ossian P. Ward Index to Vol. IX 283 ILLUSTRATIONS The Tomb of Robert Mills, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C. 2S9 Chapel Details in the Residence of Bishop Gerald Shaugh­ nessy, Seattle, Wash. · . · 260 Paul Thiry, architect Evergreen Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana 269 A photograph by Clarence Jolzn Laughlin South Portico of The White House, Washington, D. C. 270 as remodeled by William Adams Delano, F.A.I.A., Con­ sultant, and Lorenzo S. Winslow, Architect of Tlze White House The Journal of The American Institute of A1chitect1, official organ of The Institute, is puhlished monthly at The Octagon, 1741 New YorK Avenue, N.W.1 Washington 6, D. C. Editor: Henry H. Saylor. Subscription in the United States, its possessions and Canada, $3 a year in advance; elsewhere, $4 a year. Single copies 35c. 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Swann MAN AGING EDITOR OF THE BROOKLYN EAGLE The Brooklyn Chapter under the leadership of its president, E. James Gambaro, has embarked on a program to promote a better under­ standing between its members and the community. The Chapter be­ lieves the architect has it within his means to enlarge his stature and bring credit to the profession by participating in civic development. It believes that the public at all .financial levels can benefit from the architect's services. It believes, that all architects must be awakened to the reality that the profession as a whole is judged by the work of individuals, and that each must devote his talents in the highest tradition of the pro­ fession, to the end that the work of each will reflect in credit to him­ self, his client, the community and the entire profession. As a step in this direction for better public relations the Brooklyn Chapter devoted its February meeting to the address here printed. rro BEGIN WITH, let US assume an architect about my constructien that architects, newspapermen problems. and cops are the most widely mis­ This must be old stuff to you understood of people. Newspa­ who are in the business. Why is permen are libelled by stage and it so? I hear about architects, screen. It isn't likely my profes­ have met a few academically, and sion will ever be understood. Cops I have read about them in books have an advantage. You don't and magazines and newspapers.' have to understand them. You The stories of great new building just have to avoid them. projects, accompanied by sketches But architects are different. and plans, usually credit an archi­ They should be better known. I tect or a firm of architects. On have twice owned a private dwell­ the more elaborate, more expensive ing. I have undertaken numerous levels there seems to be no dis­ pieces of construction. It has position to ignore the men who never occurred to me to talk to plot these enterprises. JOURNAL OF T H E A. I. A. 243 The wntmg humorists pay at-­ visited upon all other lawyers. tention to architects. A recent Another thought it was because novel that entered the best-seller certain shyster lawyers practised class was probably mass libel. The so shadily as to create public sus­ funny boys in the magazines and picion. Again the sins of the few Sunday supplements always picture were visited upon the many. architects as excessive manic de­ Both of these reasons were true pressives, or at least schizophrenics. in degree only. Professor Oliphant Yet those of you I have met and some of the others came up seem to be the sort of men who with a less obvious but to me wouldn't kick dumb animals. You much more convincing reason. It seem anxious to do a competent was so obvious it seemed silly. and even an exalted job. Why is Even Shakespeare had seen it, it, then, that, as a class, architects when he wrote in Hamlet's solil­ suffer, not so much from a bad oquy of "the law's delays." press and bad public relations as The law's delays came nearer from so little understanding? to creating public dissatisfaction with lawyers than any other single I remember some years ago try­ thing. It is true that every time ing to do something useful for the a lawyer was accused of disgrace­ lawyers of the ~ ew York Bar. ful conduct it was a black eye for Then an.cl now the public has a the whole profession. But the great mistrust for lawyers. Some public would have little time to of the leading active members of dwell upon this if the law was the Bar Association were endeavor­ administered speedily and efficient­ ing to put their fin ger on the causes ly and with something resembling for this.