Word: architect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part...
...quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
...street watches a 72-story building go up and queries: What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future of the metropolis. Le Corbusier, a Swiss whose real name is Charles Edouard Jeanneret, famed in Paris for his revolutionary ideas and dicta on city-planning, tells didactically and illustrates exhaustively his version of the future. Hugh Ferriss, romantic U. S. draftsman of modernistic architectural elevations in black and white, illustrates his predictions with...
...series of pleasing, misty drawings made appealing by the use of breath-taking perspectives and powerful light effects. Practical critics observe that the scheme is ephemeral and utilizes such tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog-The City Could Be Made in the Image of Man Who is Made...
...Harvard School of City Planning will investigate building heights, residential crowding, and legal aspects of municipal airports according to announcement made yesterday at University Hall. G. B. Ford '99, architect, Robert Whitten, city planning consultant, and F. B. Williams '88, LL.B. '91, have been called upon to carry on these projects...