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...Yale's Everett Victor Meeks, 68, bulging, Mephistophelean architect, dean of the School of Fine Arts during the 25 years of its greatest glory (so many of its students won the Prix de Rome that they dubbed it Prix de Yale...
William Francis Gibbs '10, vice president of Gibbs and Cox Inc., naval architects, who was given the American Design award for making possible mass production of ships through standardization of parts. Doctor of Science. Citation: "Naval architect and marine engineer, in the forefront of his profession; the engineer of all manner of new craft for peace...
...critics had to go on was a generalized but nonetheless official sketch and a somewhat glamorized interpretation of it by LIFE (see cut). But it was enough to raise the hackles of conservative architects. Said the president of Manhattan's Municipal Art Society, Architect Charles C. Platt: "It seems to me simply slabs turned up and slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office...
...headed the planning team, U.S. Architect Wallace Kirkman Harrison, had expected criticism; Rockefeller Center, which Harrison helped design, was now a much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
Extremist. Architect Niemeyer is a Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...