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Lench's theory is that architectural schools teach design, engineering, freehand, water colour, history, and other subjects pertaining to the profession of architecture, but leave out one fundamental in failing to teach a man how to be an architect. All of the fundamentals which determine the real character of a building are discussed and determined in the private office of the head of the firm. The draftsman, let alone the architectural student, is entirely unaware of what is going on. Mr. Lench is attempting in his course to take the student into the private office. He will use a case...
Lench, who received his Bachelor's degree in architecture from Syracuse and did graduate work at Harvard, has been a successful commercial architect in New York and is the author of a book entitled "Promotion of Commercial Buildings...
...long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member of its first board. He became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year, its historian. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Owen D. Young's: "Commercial banking, both at home...
Within the building the architect has devoted most painstaking care and study to provide the most complete and comprehensive facilities for the exacting and innumerable experiments necessary in the over widening field of Biological Research. Convenient laboratories of one, two, three, and four units have been furnished with every imaginable service. Constant temperature room, soundproof rooms, photographic rooms, dark rooms, cold rooms, mechanical shops, etc., ect., have been ideally planned and executed. Libraries, lecture rooms, and seminar rooms have been conveniently located on all floors, and, in addition to these, an auditorium in the central portion equipped with the latest...
...jury is composed of the Education Committee of the Society. On it Harvard was represented by J. J. Haffner, Nelson Robinson Professor of Architecture and Architect to the French Government...