“New Canaan there & then” Is sponsored By Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina HegelPresent Joanne SantulliPresent Dawn dying And Pam Stutz.
The Captain George J. Santry, based in Kanaan, identified an important European technology for creating the prefabricated concrete, with which Thule Airfield was built in Greenland, a strictly secret US Ministry of Defense.
He then brought the material to the United States, where it was used by remarkable new Canaana architects Philip Johnson for various projects and John Johansen for the US message in Dublin.
George Santry was director of Joint Export Import Agency (Jia) in the military government's office after the Marshall Plan after the Second World War. In his efforts to identify materials for the reconstruction of Europe, it was introduced into the chocolate -made system.
In the 1930s, the need for cheap building materials became a global economic crisis and for concrete cement was the most expensive component. A method of making denser concrete from the same strength was developed using fewer cements and water.
In 1932 the chocolate concrete company was founded and quickly expanded to a global company. According to a Docomomo publication by Jack Pyburn, “Schokbeton's unique feature was a shock table, a steel frame table approximately as large as one over the street trailer, which was motorized, to raise and submit ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼” two hundred fifty times a minute. The sharp and intensive shocking shocking of a concrete that contains a form that was created by this dramatic action achieved several qualitative goals, including unusual strength, uniformity of placement and opportunities for creativity in design. ”
When Santry Philip Johnson met in Europe, he told him about his plans to bring this new concrete system to the United States. Philip advised him to move to New Canaan because it was a breeding site of a modernist architect. Santry accepted his advice and settled with his wife Marcine in New Canaan, whom he had hit when she worked for General Dwight Eisenhower. One of the country's first buildings that have used shock concrete concrete in the United States The glass house.
As an entrepreneur, Santry continued to work in a number of companies that were involved in architecture and construction concepts, airport lighting design, living space in South America, innovations in glass design at Corning Glass and the cleaning of oil pollution.
After his retirement, George and Marcine founded the Black Swan Marina in Old Saybrook. Marcine entered the voters' league, volunteered in the New Canaan Library and Waveny Care Center and visited St. Mark's Church.
“New Canaan there & then” Is sponsored By Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina HegelPresent Joanne SantulliPresent Dawn dying And Pam Stutz.