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SEPTEMBER, 1959 Florida Architect OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS Weed Replaces Pancoast as State Board Member 4 A New Office Address for the FAA 6 Office Practice Seminar Hailed as Outstanding Success 9 Toward Better Mortgage Loans 10 Message from The President By John Stetson, AlA 1959 AIA Residential Design Awards . 12-17 1 - Honor Award, Custom-built Category . 12-13 2 - Merit Award, Builder Category . 14-15 3 - Merit Award, Builder Category . 16-17 How Much Light Is Enough? . 19 FAA Standards of Good Practice . 21-24 Office and Job Forms 1959 Convention to Stress Scope of Design 25 News and Notes 28 Advertisers' Index 31 F.A.A. OFFICERS - 1959 John Stetson, President, P. 0. Box 2174, Palm Beach The FLORIDA ARCHITECT, Official Journal of Francis R. Walton, Secretary, 142 Bay Street, Daytona Beach the Florida Association of Architects of the American Institute of Architects, is owned by Joseph M. Shifalo,. Treasurer, Suite 8, Professional Center, Winter Park the . Florida Association of Architects, Inc., a Robert H. Levison, First Vice-President, 425 So. Garden Ave., Clearwater Florida Corporation not for profit, and is pub­ Verner Johnson, Second Vice-President, 250 N. E. 18th St., Miami lished monthly, Suite 414, Dupont Plaza Cen­ ter, Miami 32, Florida; telephone FR 1-8331. Arthur Lee Campbell, Third Vice-President, 115 So. Main Street, Gainesville Editorial contributions, including plans and photographs of architects' work, are welcomed but publication cannot be guaranteed. Opinions Roger W. Sherman, Executive Director, 302 Dupont Plaza Center, Miami 32. expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the Editor or the Florida Association of Architects. Editorial material may be freely DIRECTORS reprinted by other official A IA publications, provided full credit is given to the author IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: H. Samuel Kruse; BROWARD COUNTY: and to The FLOR I DA ARCHITECT for prior use. Robert E. Hall, Robert E. Hansen; DAYTONA BEACH: David A. Leete; ... Advertisements of products, materials and FLORIDA CENTRAL: Eugene H. Beach, Anthony L. Pullara, Robert C. services adaptable for use in Florida are wel­ comed, but mention of names or use of illus­ Wielage; FLORIDA NORTH: Turpin C. Bannister, FAIA, M. H. Johnson; trations, of such materials and products in FLORIDA NORTH CENTRAL: James A. Stripling; FLORIDA NORTH WEST: either editorial or advertising columns does not Hugh J. Leitch; FLORIDA SOUTH: James L. Deen, Herbert R. Savage, Wahl, constitute endorsement by the Florida Associ­ J. Snyder, Jr., FAIA; JACKSONVILLE: Robert C. Broward, A. Eugene Cellar; ation of Architects. Advertising material must conform to standards of this publication; and MID-FLORIDA: Robert B. Murphy, Rhoderic F. Taylor; PALM BEACH: the right is reserved to reject such material be­ Donald R. Edge, Frederick W. Kessler. cause of arrangement, copy or illustrations. .. Accepted as controlled circulation publi­ cation at Miami, Florida. THE COVER How do YOU like it ... ? This is the second of a series of covers designed Printed by McMurray Printers by a committee of the Jacksonville Chapter and executed by the John E. Ropp Studio in Jacksonville. It seems probable that the idea of specially designed covers suggested by Jacksonville readers will gain general approval. ROGER W. SHERMAN, AIA - Editor Ideas for covers for 1960 issues - we're all set for the rest of 1959 - VERNA M. SHERMAN must be floating about. Let's hear from other AIA Chapters - and even FAA Administrative Secretary from individual members - so we can develop fully a tradition of cover design by those for whom the magazine is published. 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PANELOK is furnished standard 24- inch, 8-feet high. IN OFFICES ••• :- • ~ •• ~·' t~ ... ~· MADE WITH ~. ~· • : = ~ ·_ ·,;',I - I ~- - ~~·t .1 -:·~t~j~· MASONITE . - -:- -.:· ~·~ ~· '. .. ~,~ The Wonder Wood Panel of 1000 Uses STORE S AND INSTI T UT IO NS , --.~ , A.H. RAMSEY AND SONS, INC. 71 N. W. 11th T ERRACE, MIAMI - - - F R anl~ l in 3 -0811 Ir.~= PRODlJ<.T ~a Service to Florida's west coast is from our warehouse at Palmetto . Call Palmetto 2- 1011 .......£-... .-.... ~ ........................................................................ .. SEPTEMB ER, 1959 3 Weed Replaces Pancoast To broaden .. the scope ,, As State Board Member of design R01n:1n LA w \ v EED, AIA, of ~ ri­ again as a Licut.-Coloncl m the ami, has been named by Gm-cnHH \\rorlcl \\Tar JI Air Transport Com­ LEROY COLLINS as a new mcrn bcr of mand - a three-year assignment dis­ the State Board of Architecture to re­ tinguished by six <l\Yarcls, including a ~ place RvssEu. T. PANCOAST, FAIA, of Presidential Citation and a Com­ Coconut GroYc, who s c appoint­ mendation Award. I le has long been ~!u! ~o~!?. mcn t expired July l st. The Gm-crnor a mcm bcr of the l\ f iami Board of Ap­ G OF ALUMINUM rc-appoin tccl hrn in cum hen t Board peals and the Dack County Dc\-clop­ A wide range of quality aluminum products - members whose terms had also ex­ mcnt Committee. \\rork of his firm h, doors, curt a i n - w a 11 extrusions - which can be pired, ARCHIE G. PARISH, FAIA, of St. has \Hm national recognition; and he engineered to your own design or specified in several standard Petersburg, and ~foRTON T. !RoN­ has been a contributor to nation a 1 types, sizes and finishes . i\IONCER, AIA, of Ft. Lrnclcrclalc, \Yho publications on sc\-cral occasions. has sen-eel as Secretary to the Board I I is A.IA membership dates from since his initial appointment in 19 SS. 1929; ancl since then he has been The term of appointment to the State acti,·c in AIA affairs at both Chapter Board is four years. and State lc\-cls. I le \Yas Vice Presi­ The llC\Y Board mcm bcr has had a dent of the l<'AA for hrn years and long and distinguished professional President during 1942. career and has been acti\T in com­ RussELJ. T. PANCOAST, FA.IA, retires munity affairs. Born in Sc\Yicklcy, Pa., from the State Board after thirteen he studied architecture at Carnegie consccutiYc years of sen-ice marked by Tech and mm-eel permanently to lilor­ In 34 sparkling colors for curtain a self-effacing and clcclicatccl effort to wa\ Is that are non-fading, se\f­ ida during the booming twenties, <1ch«111cc the professional status of ar­ cleaning, high in insulating value and low in cost cpcning his mm office in 1922. IIis chitects through the firm, but fair prcscn t firm is \ V eccl, Johnson Asso­ ;1clministration of Vioricla's architect­ ciates. I Jc is registered to practice ar­ ural registration Lrn·. I le \Yas named chitecture in SC\"Cl1 states and holds au as a State Board member in 1946 by NCARB Senior Certificate. Gm·crnor i\In.LARD L. CALDWELi. as BROWN Married and the father of three an interim appointee to fill the unex­ children - a son is nmY an ass;)ciatc and pired term of J CHIN L. SKINNER, FA.IA. of his firm - ?\fr. \Vccd has s~n-ccl Subsequently he \Ya'i reappointed for GRIST in hrn \ Vorld \Vars, first as a Lieuten­ three foll terms, in 1947, 19)1 and ant in the Coast Artillery Corps and Rugged, heavy-section windows for (Co11ti1111ed 011 Page 6) all types of buildings where preci­ sion quality, lasting good looks and freedom from maintenance expense are important factors of design .... GEORGEC. c GRIFFIN 0. 4201 St. Augustine Rood P.O.