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Dwelling Service Industry:
"that though architects profess to be master solvers of space problems, thus far they have not been called into any part of the U.S. space program. The professionals who have been called in are space medicine specialists, physicists, mathematicians, geologists, psychologists, chemists, engineers, biologists; but there are no architects.
"I am confident, from my experiments, that architects can be trained quickly enough and in such a way as to be much more effective in the space program than are those scientists and businessmen who are now handling the program. The architectural scientists will be especially effective in defining the ecological problem and its solution, thus forestalling the fiasco implicit in the scientists’, technologists’, and industrialists’ esthetically-weighted, market-analysis misconceptions.
"I have familiarity with the space program in the United States and I have found that the big contracts given out so far have gone only to large corporations that have dressed themselves up with large staffs of scientists in order to substantiate their lobbying competitiveness with the universities.
¶ Citations
- THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep’64
