Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1943 — Page 4
WAR MAY JANGE HOUSES
y Engineers See New Style Architecture in a Bomb- Crazy Age.
‘|. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.). —Even if the world has gone bomb- , mankind need not revert to ve-dweiling if architects of the age will hearken to| rules now
being developed by*U. S, army en- |
ineers at Ft. Belvoir, Va. Writing in the current issue of
he Military Engineer,” 2d Lt, T.|
5, James of the corps of engineers wers the question: “In an air can man continue to live above dd?” The answer, James says, may be found in the work of the army's “camofleurs out of whose research ‘may well come a ‘bible’ of landpe architecture for an aerial ‘pombardment age.”
There Is Some Hope
“Note first,” he writes, “that the architecture of tomorrow is being ‘planned under the impact of today’s ttle. ." “Note, too, that there have been those who could see no hope save n atavistic return to the architec‘Sure of the cave-dwellers. “How hopeful it is, therefore, to ‘know that on the basis of the docrine. developed at Ft. Belvoir thus far the U. S. army engineer sees no such terrors. in tomorrow.” The architect of the bomb-age, ‘according to’ James, must cradle his ouse in the natural contours just ow the crest of a hill, keep its silhouette low and its shadows small, reak up its easily recognizable boxshape into irregular and unsym‘metrical patterns, plan adjacent planting with a view to concealment, and use indigenous, unfinished building materials which will ‘blend into the landscape,
War Changes in Building
“In fact,” James says, “the war may produce among its many surprising influences the lasting effect a forced and widespread adoption of many ,of the basic tenets the modern architect's school.” ese include: Dispersion and decentralization. pring the target makes it hardto hit. . 2. Breaking up of regular patterns. Nature abhors straight lines, and from the air rectangular forms stand out vividly. +3. Selection of rural sites and Preservation of landscape. Maintaining plantings and avoid construction “scars.”
No Traffic Concentration
~ 4. Reduction of traffic concen‘tration. This is as important in a community as on the battle field. 8. Elimination of high chimneys, baked roofs and anything else hich casts “give-away” shadows. 6. Use of indigenous materials— for example, field stone which will merge with the landscape.
No ‘Snebbishness’ -
In the bomb-age, James suggests, anobbishness in architecture will be ‘unsafe; the “show place” will give way to buildings so much a part Of their setting that they will be All but invisible from above. ~ “In the striking similarity of their doctrine with the basic aims of modern architecture,” James writes, *the army engineers are proving again that he who uses ‘terrain’ to the fullest-@dvantage is the man ho will survive. The earth conInues to be man’s best friend.”
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