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This article focuses on developments in architecture style. Architects, in collaboration with numerous homeowners, businesses and universities, are producing numberless permanent monuments to the theory. Harvard University's Graduate Student Dormitory, Illinois Tech's Campus, Lever Brothers New York headquarters, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) new auditorium are only the premiere examples. Nearly all modern, and, oddly enough, many traditional houses, also exhibit symptoms of the same ideological disease. The most interesting current example of the scientific approach is undoubtedly MIT's new auditorium. The building's envelope is a triangular segment of a sphere, supported at ground level on three points.

Presents a first person account of the U.S. media coverage of the war in Vietnam in 1967 with the first investigating team of the International War Crime Tribunal. Semi-scheduled flights that were exempted from the cut off of plane on the runway of Hanoi; Status of the transportation system in North Vietnam; Description of the interiors of the villa, which served as the journalists' accommodation; Action taken by the journalists on the first air raid; Inspection of the areas in Hanoi that had been bombed.

The article presents a description of Mexico City, Mexico. The bourgeoisie is on the rise in Mexico City. A ride around the Jardines de Pedregal would convince anyone that they had already risen. Gorgeous modern homes of charcoal and white lava stone compete with one another. Fantastic rock gardens can be seen through iron gates. In the Colonia Palanco, one of many substantial neighborhoods, well-kept old Spanish houses stand next to glass-parted apartment buildings, their stucco already cracking. In empty lots at the edge of the city, dark women wearing their hair in braids wash clothes in pails at faucets placed at intervals by the government. Behind them one can see the rotten shacks of tin, beaverboard, clay, straw.

This article reports on the rising supply and demand of apartments in some major cities in the U.S. such as Boston in Massachusetts, Los Angeles in California and Houston in Texas. It explains that in this cities many homebuyers are opting for apartment houses. However, housing trend in most cities across the country remain the single house. The rising cost of homes, mortgages, taxes and land prices are factors that push the trend toward apartment homes.

The article focuses on the increase in the number of houses being built in the U.S. in 1950. It cites the influence of builder Levitt & Sons, Inc. on the housing market. Builder Joseph F. Kelly has started working on 400 ranch-type houses to sell for less than 10,000 dollars in Massachusetts. It details how the housing projects are changing the way of life of millions of U.S. citizens.

The article discusses the challenges for the ultramodern house market including costs and financing problems in 1960 in the U.S. The contemporary house styles are described as having simple clean lines lacking traditional decorative devices. Architect-builder David Henken, discusses problems with the resale status of contemporary houses.

The article focuses on Monsanto House of the Future which opens to public in June 1957 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and is made of plastic. It says that the idea for Monsanto House started with Monsanto Chemical Co. which collaborated with other companies, including Crane Co. and Mobay Chemical Co., for the equipment and construction of the house. Architects Richard Hamilton and Marvin Goody of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Architecture designed the house.

The article offers information on the Habitat, a housing complex designed by Israeli-born Canadian architect Moshe Safdie and exhibited at the Expo 1967 in Montreal, Quebec. It states that the Habitat combines the city and suburban living experiences, and consists of pre-fabricated concrete building boxes which can be assembled into a continuous structure. It discusses the low cost associated with the construction of the housing system, and his plans to bring the concept into new projects.

The article focuses on the construction of the house of 59-year-old corporate lawyer at Harvard David Lloyd Kreeger and wife Carmen. It mentions that the house has been designed by architect Philip Johnson to accommodate the international collection of Kreeger consisting of 150 paintings and 50 sculptures. It adds that the house is considered more like a European town house rather than a typical American home.

The article focuses on the war housing development program by the U.S. govenrment. It presents a photograph of 5,000 prefabricated and partly preassembled demountable homes that are being built in five months to relieve a housing shortage. It lists several companies which are being associated in various ways with the manufacture of prefabricated housing.

The article reports on a prefabricated housing program introduced by the U.S. Federal Public Housing Authority (FPHA). It relates the removal and relocation of 186 houses, which represent almost one-third of the 586 prefabricated homes built in Indianhead, Maryland, for workers at a Navy ordnance plant. It figures the construction and completion of prefabricated houses, the availability of occupancy, and the already occupied houses.

The article discusses the history of London, England during the lifetime of English playwright William Shakespeare, who died in 1616. It comments on streets, domestic architecture, and commerce. The author notes the prominence of tradesmen in the city, including merchants and shopkeepers, and considers how plays were targeted to this audience. Other topics explored by the author include the layout of the city, the cathedral church of St. Paul, and neighborhoods and palaces on the outskirts of the city, including Bridewell Palace.

The article discusses the decline of Roman rule in Great Britain. It examines the nature of the relationship between Rome and Great Britain and comments on Great Britain's class structure, villas, and fiscal and financial issues of the third century. The author also reflects on the destruction of Gaul, Christianity in Great Britain, and the role of Great Britain in Rome's administration. Other topics include military protection, barbarian attacks on Great Britain, and accounts by the historian Ammianus.

The article analyzes the condition of the new home building market in the U.S. According to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) chief Albert Cole, the country can still absorb another one million new homes in 1954, but the focus of home builders should shift to areas that are not yet fully provided with housing units and most of these areas are on the lower end of the home pricing scale. Builders have complained that projects are being hindered by difficulties in finding financing.

Presents the author's concerns for workingmen for house in New York City. Existence of housing problems in the City; Overview of living standard of people; Argument pertaining to the land value for making apartments in New York City; View that in New York almost no building is being done which a family can afford to occupy if its total income is less than $2,500 to $3,000 a year; Break down of private enterprises in the building trade; Discussion of rents of apartment houses; Infrastructure of subsidized apartments in New York City; Role of various organizations and construction companies in meeting the requirement for houses.

Focuses on the housing experiment of French architect Charles-Èdouard Jeanneret-Gris also known as Le Corbusier in Marseilles, Ohio. Highlights of the residential structure proposed by Le Corbusier; Selection of the sight for the building; Effect on the skyline of the city with the emergence of the residential structure.

Comments on the effort of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in building houses and establish a series of new towns and suburbs for war workers. Determination of amortization charge; Plan of government to take rentals an item for amortization to retire both private capital and public loan; Value of the unearned increment of land values; Call for public ownership of land and buildings or socialism.

The article offers information on the company villa programs. It states that several British companies are putting up villa holidays as incentive programs for salesmen, bonuses for top management, and as prizes during promotional campaigns for customer contests. It mentions that villas offers services like swimming pool, multiple bathrooms and daily maid service. It presents a villa for entire summer can cost anything between 1,250 dollars to 6,000 dollars.

The author discusses ethnic conflict in U.S. cities as of 1967, focusing on hearings of the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Senate Committee on Government Operations and challenges in improving social conditions for African Americans and residents of ghettos. Topics include civil rights legislation, the middle class, housing construction, and the testimony of some officials and activists.

The article offers information on the trend of homebuilding activities that is mainly affected by the decline of household formation. It states that homebuilding does not have to depend solely on the rate of family formation as it can find business in replacing housing that is substandard, over age, or making way for highways or urban redevelopment. It adds that a revival market in rental housing is also expected by some experts in the industry.

The article focuses on issues regarding the dropping of investor confidence in the U.S. It mentions the decline in the flow of new orders for the factories of the country which serves as a sign for cutbacks in inventories, along with the running ahead of sales by the production. The business confidence is also shaken by the failure of housing construction and tight money that results from the stiff policy of restraint from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The article reports on the 1944 postwar trend in housing design and equipment in the U.S. It states that construction workers and building materials manufacturer are alarmed at the postwar visions of convenience, comfort, and design in housing construction. According to survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), postwar housing innovations include a new type of coal-burning furnace, improved kitchen ranges, and wider use of light metals.

The article discusses about housing projects in Germany. Architectural methods used were the most comprehensive and direct. For five years one man of immense vigor, Ernst May, was virtually the dictator. In those five years "New Mayland" came to encompass some 15,000 houses, meant to represent the best that the twentieth century can do for the average man. The person who knows what sort of house is most practical for living in is not the speculator or the financier but the architect. The visitor to most recent developments finds houses not in squares but in long straight continuous rows, facing not one another but all same way, with wide garden spaces between, the rows at right angles instead of parallel to all but a very few streets.

The article focuses on the construction of homes and business buildings in the U.S. in 1930. A decline in residential contracts has been recorded for the period 1925-1929. According to a builder, business buildings are made of permanent materials and are fireproof and do not suffer from settling. They are also cheap because they are developed by systematized construction methods. An authority says that dwelling houses are built by operators for sale. The factory production principle is being applied for building modernization.

This section offers news briefs about business and economy overseas. There is a better economic outlook and increased business confidence in Germany as the country improves its relations with its neighbors. The Liverpool Corp. in Great Britain will demolish several houses to construct new dwellings. Japan is hoping to improve its trade relations with Latin America as Japanese bankers and exporters already established a trading organization with offices in Argentina.

The article focuses on the present condition of the city of Jerusalem. From the remotest times the altars of God were set up in the high places. The corresponding danger was that of drought. Water is hard to come by in Jerusalem to this day. But the habit of building on the hills lies in the atmosphere of the land. The new Jewish suburbs Talpioth and Beth Hakerem are on windswept hills and the modern landscape architect and city builder follows the methods of the ancients who terraced the slopes all through Judaea. The city is spreading in all directions, but by a profound impulse the vision turns eastward to the heights of Mount Scopus and the Mount of Olives and to the hills of Moab far beyond. The newer quarters and institutions lie west and north-west so that one generally sees the old, walled town from that direction and enters it by either the Jaffa or the Damascus Gate.

This article focuses on poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley wrote most of his poems after he left Pisa in 1822 till he suffered the sea change. The article also describes his house that is inhabited by new proprietors. The house is not included in the purchase, and unfortunately the owner is allowing to go utterly to ruin. There it is exactly as the Shelleys left it, and indeed as they found it when Shelley arrived at Lerici on April 28, 1822. It would be difficult to imagine a more perfect poet's home, with the sea which, owing to an almost constant ground swell, dashes and foams against its walls.

The article features the facilities of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. located in South Akron, Ohio. Built in 1911, the plant has been visited by industrial engineers from all parts of the U.S. and other countries. The company is cited for its considerate treatment and unfailing courtesy to their men. It has constructed hundreds of homes for its employees. The health and medical benefits offered by the company to its employees are mentioned.