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.proponents of academic classicism 219Office along with that of other federal offices and bureaus engagedin building construction.Wenderoth felt that parceling out all of theOffice s work would lead to a confusing variety of methods and pro-cesses, which ran counter to the stated desire of the TreasuryDepartment for standardization.The separate department or bureauidea was one that was discussed during Wenderoth s period andthroughout the 1920s and 1930s.In 1913, Senator George Earle Chamberlain of Oregon introducedSenate Bill 3063, providing for the discretionary employment of pri-vate architects in a consulting capacity to the supervising architect.Wenderoth favored this method of involving private architects, be-cause it reflected his personal experience on the new Senate andHouse Office Buildings (where John M.Carrre and Thomas Hast-ings served as consulting architects).Even though his recent profes-sional association may have rendered him biased, Wenderoth felt thatthe cooperation between the federal government and private archi-tects as represented in these congressional buildings produced thefinest public structures in the last quarter century. 74 Wenderoththought that while the legislation may not be the final solution ofwhat is conceded to be a problem of national importance, it is be-lieved that it is worthy of serious trial. 75 The bill was never enacted.The push toward standardization that was initiated under Treas-ury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh gathered greater strength between1913 and the U.S.entrance into World War I in 1917.TreasurySecretary William G.McAdoo was a proponent of standardization,in conjunction with Congressman Cyrus Cline, chairman of theHouse Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings.Wenderothhimself was a party to this effort; he was critical of Taylor s practiceof taking up each building de novo, as an independent problem.AsWenderoth stated, a great deal of time was expended in seekingvariations in details or modifications in type instead of attempting torefine and perfect a sufficiently diversified range of acceptabletypes. 76 Much of the heating, ventilating, sanitary work, and theproduction of specifications could be standardized, and Wenderothpreferred to invest the efforts of his staff in producing correct andperfect architectural models. Wenderoth also recognized that localsentiment could force exceptions in the efforts of the Office to stan-dardize, as such demands were made for extra entrances, for a reviewby the locality of preliminary sketches, or for other alternatives to aproposed architectural design.He also noted that no two sites for [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]