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Gropius catapulted into the world's eye during the early Twenties when he directed the Bauhaus school at Dessau. Here was a driving educational experiment founded on the iconoclastic thesis that an architect "is not an artist but a coordinator who must make all of his decisions from the point of view of the improved community." Beauty in a building is not skin- deep, held Gropius, but an integral part of the complete unity; more important, by "building" he did not mean an isolated structure but the street, town, region, nation...
Married. Abram Garfield, 74, Cleveland architect, son of the 20th U.S. President; and Helen Matthews, 45; he for the second time, she for the first; in Shaker Heights, Ohio...
Although presented as a "non-technical" introduction to regional planning, Professor G. Holmes Perkins' Arch Sci 5b tends to be weighted down with his own extensive experience and interest in the subject on all governmental levels so that architect-concentrators might well wait for the more condensed material as given...
...friendly affair, that introduces likable people and captures a nice stage warmth; but it is also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
Died. William Starling Burgess, 68, famed naval architect, designer of three successful America's Cup defenders (Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise), pioneer airman and aircraft designer (winner of the prized Collier Trophy in 1915 for developing a self-stabilizing airplane); of a heart ailment; in Hoboken...