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Frank Lloyd Wright, the most uncompromising and one of the most fertile U. S. architects of the 20th Century, has worked with no school or organization except his own small colony of disciples at Taliesin, Wis. What another gifted architect, Manhattan's William Lescaze, calls "the first principle of architecture-building what we need out of what we have that best serves the purpose, using the best tools available," is not studied in schools of architecture so much as is the record of the needs, materials and tools of architecture in the past. This is the eclectic tradition fostered...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...third type of Mr. Lougee's work, being essentially decorative in purpose, shows many interesting ideas in color. These, he says, may be utilized by the architect or decorator in the decorative design of interiors, or to increase the emotional pleasure of architecture over and above its functional value...
Trained at his father's kiln. Designer Willet acquired a second-generation ease with his materials which has enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that...
Last week, at the new Universalist Church of the Restoration in Germantown, Pa., designer Willet's latest and most guild-minded window was dedicated. It was commissioned by Architect J. Roy Carroll Jr., in the belief that, if the church had at least one good stained-glass window, parishioners would be inspired to replace the others, which are plain. When the contractors, subcontractors and workmen heard that Henry Willet was designing a "Workmen's Window" to represent the various trades engaged in building the church, they clubbed together to pay for it. Designer Willet happily put Architect Carroll...