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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1973)
Bob-it at Bob’s Hamburgers 13th and Patterson BuyaBig Brute and get a coke. Fl*©© • with this coupon. ( Coupon good Wed., Thurs., & Fri. March 28, 29, & 30) -COUPON Architecture prof honored for ‘volume ’ housing idea An assistant professor of ar chitecture at the University, Guntis Plesums, has an idea that could transform mass housing from what he charges is “monstrous standardization” to individualized, flexible spaces. Plesums has been given $11,900 from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago to help him and his students work on the idea. “Housing is the foremost un solved problem in architecture,” says Plesums, who believes a “simplistic interpretation” of industrialization has kept people from being able to control their own living conditions. His idea basically would give residents of mass housing the freedom of suburbanites who can purchase their own lots. The urban residents would buy a “volume”, a specified area within a large building. They then could ask a contractor to fill it in with as many rooms or open areas as they wished. “The families themselves would determine the spatial arrangements they needed,” he explains. “People could play a role in building their own house. Instead of someone else making all the decisions, they could make some.” Urban families of low and moderate income simply can’t afford to have that kind of freedom now, according to Plesums. He points out that his idea, which he calls “artificial lots,” would permit living arrangements to grow and Don’t just be looked at, be looked up to. After a young woman enrolls in Air Force ROTC, she’s eligible to compete for an Air Force scholarship that includes free tuition, lab and incidental fees, and reimbursement for textbooks for her last 3 years. In addition, in their junior and senior years, a tax-free monthly allowance of $100 is paid to both scholarship and non-scholarship cadets alike. 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"Our present system doesn’t recognize the capacity industry might have,” claims Plesums, who thinks the artificial lot scheme could restructure the building industry and trades, by promoting more sharing between large-scale operation and small builders, owners and industry. Plesums has been interested in high density housing for several years, and lias explored user completed housing in his design classes. "This proposal is not dependent on technological breakthroughs, but on recognition of man’s needs to design his own immediate environment,” he explains. He notes that many of his present ideas evolved out of his observations of how Japanese architecture has allowed for individual freedom, when he was in Japan during 1966-67 on a Fulbright-Hayes research grant to study architecture. At the University where he has been on the faculty since 1969, Plesums teaches a course which he initiated called “Structure Systems”, which departs con siderably from other such courses and Architectural Design. Incidental fee... (Continued bom Page 1) Holcomb said that the total of all the proposed 1973-74 budgets submitted by programs exceeds $1 million, liiat would mean that if all the proposed budgets were granted, each student would have to pay about $26 per term, an increase of $7. “I’d like to decrease it (the incidental fee),” said Holcomb. ‘‘But 1 don’t think that’s probable.” Holcomb said that the budget recommendations would be submitted to University President Robert Clark around May 1. The following is a list of budget hearings scheduled by the Student Incidental Fee Com mittee. Wednesday, March 2ft 7 p.m . Project Life. 7:30, Survival Cen ter. 8, Legislative Coordinators; 8:30, National Student Lobby; 9, Graduate Student Council; 9:30, Switchboard; 10, School ot Music, 10 30, international Education Center Thursday, ftAarch 29: 7 pm, Search. 7:30, University Feminists, 8, Drug Information Center; 8 30. Project Continuation. 9, Native American Program. 9:X, Interinstitutional Union of Students, 10, Escape 10 X K WAX Friday. March X; 7 pm. Action Now. 7 X, Tax Confer; », Cosmopolitan Student, 8:X, Child Care; 9, Legal Services, 9:X, Oregon Prisoners Coalition Monday, April 2: 7 p.m., Cultural Forum; 7:X. Black Student Union; $. Foreign Student Organization, » x. Sesames; 9, Canterbury Center, 9:X. tilahe School; 10, Gay People's Alliance. 10 X, Asian American Students Tuesday, April J: 7 p.m.. Native American Student Union; 7 X, ASUO Housing Office. I, Willamette Student Housing. 8:30, OSPIRG; 9, Forensics. 9:x. Recreational Folk Dancing; 10. Repertory Dancers 10:X. Student Bar Association. Wednesday. April 4: 7 p.m , MEChA
