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...Deal development. It is nothing of the sort. New Washington was the pet scheme of Andrew W. Mellon. The new Department of the Interior building, into which Secretary Ickes moved last week, is the only one of the new Federal buildings designed under the New Deal. The favorite architect of Mr. Mellon's city planners was the late Cass Gilbert (Woolworth Building), who died...
...become President of Wellesley (TIME, May 25). One outcome of this intercollegiate shuffling is that Dean Woodworth, a blonde, bustling administrator of 41, will rule over her onetime superior's daughter. Junior Barbara Wriston, who preferred Oberlin to Lawrence. At the same time, Oberlin appointed as consulting architect to supervise a $230,000 centennial building program an old Oberlin boy, Richard Kimball of Manhattan's Kimball & Husted. Chief building Architect Kimball will be concerned with is a physical education unit for women...
...Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown son, pride in his golf, a fondness for fishing and a natural leaning toward conservatism. The executive offices in his new building are period (Queen Anne and Georgian), but the president...
Often termed the world's most noted architect, Walter Gropius, arrived at Robinson Hall yesterday to take over his new duties as professor of Architecture...
...mind to import a dry style of my own from Europe," he declared when questioned about his plans. "I am more concerned with showing the method of approach to architecture." The eminent German architect asserted that he would like to stress the practical element in design here, since modern architecture is becoming more and more interrelated with the problems of actual construction...