Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modernist Führerhaus ("Leader's House") in which the Munich Conference was held (TIME, Oct. 10), Adolf Hitler last week received the new Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Frantisek Chvalkovsky, who officially assured the Führer that "Czechoslovakia will assume a loyal attitude toward Germany...
Traditionalist Edward Koch and Modernist Edward D. Stone split the honors in their designs for the Ramsey family of Atlanta (income $2,000 to $3,000), Mr. Koch providing a house with charm and Mr. Stone venturing one with imagination...
...going became tough for Tradition in the plans for the Calvert family of Los Angeles (income $3,000 to $4,000), for whom Modernist William Wilson Wurster's graceful patio house out-pointed Traditionalist H. Roy Kelley's "California Colonial." A walkaway for the moderns was provided by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury...
...Garden City of the Future" with terraced walls exposed to a maximum of air and sunlight is shown in an exhibit in Robinson Hall here. The work is accomplished by Marcel Breuer, young European modernist, who has just completed his first year as research associate in the Graduate School of Design...
Josephine Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...