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Three months ago General Electric Co. invited every architect, engineer, draftsman and designer in the U. S. to submit plans for two types of houses in a $21,000 prize contest. Result: The greatest single collection of architects' drawings (2,100) assembled since Depression logjammed the housing industry. Last week the drawings, suspended from wires like baby's diapers on a laundry line, were put on display for a jury in General Electric's Manhattan building...
...Banker-Painter-New Dealer Edward Bruce was given no prize last week, he was as fully rewarded by being elected an associate member of the Academy. So were 14 others. Among them: Painter Maurice Sterne, Architect Paul P. Cret, Illustrator Everett Shinn, Sculptor Hilda Kristina Lascari, only woman to be made an A. N. A. this year...
Died. Roger Harrington Bullard, 50, architect; of pneumonia; in Plandome, N. Y. He designed country clubs and socialite country houses, won a gold medal in 1933 in a Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...
...collection of paintings eventually will be made available to the public. It is entirely unfounded that I have arranged to build an art gallery at Washington. I have engaged no architect, have caused no plans to be drawn and have made no commitments to build or endow a gallery at Washington, Pittsburgh or elsewhere...
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., treats of the work of H. H. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls here, and considers the skyscraper as one of our distinctive contributions to world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The new Classical buildings at Washington, the new Gothic or Georgian buildings at the leading universities . . offer no new picture beyond that of the intentions of the nineties. All are splendid, expensive, and meaningless...