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Claudia (by Rose Franken, produced by John Golden) is a bride of a year (Dorothy McGuire) whose architect husband (Donald Cook) has established her in a Connecticut farmhouse de luxe. She is also childishly established in an attachment to her mother. It takes pregnancy and the knowledge that her mother has an incurable cancer to begin to grow Claudia...
...costliest modern church in the world, planned by Europe's most famous modern architect and his son, is going up across the street from a Victorian city hall and a conventional Carnegie library in Columbus, Ind. (population: 11,738; county seat of Bartholomew County...
...choosing as architects dapper, apple-cheeked, Finnish-born Eliel Saarinen and his broad-shouldered, twinkling son Eero, the Tabernacle Church got a pair of modernists whom even conservative architects respect. Best known for his rose-granite railway station at Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen recently won (with Son Eero and Son-in-law Robert Swanson) the national competition for the $2,500,000 Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which, if built, will be Washington's first modern Government building. Now president of Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Architect Saarinen exerts a widening influence over U. S. building...
...want a brighter England," said Architect Tait. "I want to see gloom banished from the grey industrial areas. I want great simplicity in design, good proportion, more light, more color, more lakes and more fountains. . . . Needs and modern materials will dictate our architecture. It will have to be functional but it will not be ugly, cubist or arrogantly advanced...
...task of national replanning went to stuffy but astute Minister of Works and Buildings Sir John Reith. With the assistance of Consulting Engineer Colonel Howard Humphreys as Director of Works, and Architect Thomas S. Tait as Director of Standardization, he last week submitted a reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land...