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...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM published rough plans, which Franklin Roosevelt sketched and initialed last February and Architect Henry J. Toombs of Atlanta trued up, for a five-room, one-story ''dream house" on the President's lately purchased, 70-acre tract next to his mother's estate at Hyde Park. In his rendered perspective drawings, Architect Toombs respectfully subscribed himself only as an "associate" of Architect Roosevelt (unlicensed). Comparison of Mr. Roosevelt's sketches with Mr. Toombs's finished plans revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional...
...received a copy . . . and that was the first I heard about it," said Architect John A. Holabird. Only committee member who admitted working on The Truth was Chairman John T. Pirie, president of State Street's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Starchy Mr. Pirie could not explain why his fellow members had not seen the report, snapped: "Simply an oversight-somebody bungled." Next day The Truth was withdrawn from circulation as mysteriously as it had been issued...
...more news of Architect Wright...
...newcomer to America is the great modern architect Michael Breuer, some of whose works are now on exhibition in Robinson Hall. At the age of thirty-six Breuer is now one of the foremost of Modern architects and it is from his creative genius that a new era in American architecture may spring...
...Buckminster Fuller as an architect it has been said that he proceeds incoherently to logical conclusions. As a writer he follows the same procedure, leaping from-subject to subject faster than the eye can follow, but usually reaching conclusions notable for their mixture of blunt common sense and intuitive romanticism...