Robert Lavin
Robert Lavin has produced some extraordinary images for United Engineers
& Constructors Inc., in the 1960's. Other artists worked on images
for the company (Stanley Meltzer for instance). Lavin has a characteristic
touch - very painterly but with great sensitivity towards surfaces and
engineering detail. He seems to relish painting blueprints and other surfaces
of graphic instruction.
each of
his images is printed at 17 x 22.5 cms.
September
1964 and intended to illustrate the arrival of building materials on a
large construction site.."Part of the skill of United Engineers is
scheduling deliveries to mesh with construction."
April 1963; during the last period of construction of a laboratory,
a heavy concrete casting is put in place.
August 1961, and a team of United's engineers fitting a Header,
"integral with a steam generating system... its blunt cylindrical
feet are points of entry for vertical tubes. In the foreground dangle
empty eyed brackets waiting for a bigger and heavier header.." June
1961. A skilled workman fits a small piece of tubing for a process control
system in a new chemical plant. Date unknown ; a machine in a strip mill
that winds sheet steel into coils. It is significant that the industrial
process continues while new elements are being built. July 1964, and a
celebration of mechanical precision on even the most massive pieces of
industrial equipment.
date unknown, the image shows engineers checking circuits from blueprints.
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