Word: architect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastman and Dr. Harvey Jacob Burkhart, director of the Rochester Dental Dispensary have the sole authority to select the architect, arrange the details of the interior and select the equipment for the clinic, all of which will be up to the best U. S. standards. For two years the Italian government must not interfere with the clinic without Mr. Eastman's or Dr. Burkhart's approval. That Government appoint an unselfish, intelligent director who for two months must study U. S. dental methods and clinics under Dr. Burkhart's direction. It must furnish funds to operate...
...Architect Murphy was born in New Haven, has lived chiefly in Manhattan, has built many a western building after the western fashion. At Yenching with skillful adaptation of western structural standards to eastern esthetic principals he has designed a group of 45 buildings (29 of them already finished) which do no violence to the memory of the Manchu prince of whose summer-palace their grounds were once a part. The present Chinese government has retained Mr. Murphy for an extremely ambitious building program in Nanking, new Chinese capitol (TIME...
...Architect Wright was born in 1869 on a Wisconsin farm where he spent his precocious childhood tending sheep. With no formal education he informally studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Although he received no degree he became unusually proficient in that profession. Twenty years ago his reputation in architecture was worldwide...
...architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light...
...favorite axiom of dramatists that you never can tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years with a little architect, James Barcaldine, and his pleasant wife. So tranquil are the Barcaldines that a theatrical impresario cites them as the sort of people who like twinkling artificial entertainment because their own lives are so fatuously real...