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...Murphy is a native of New Haven where he graduated from Yale in 1899 followed by a year of graduate work in preparation for his career as an architect. In 1914 he visited China in connection with the designing of college buildings for St. Paul's College at Tokyo, and for Yale-in-China at Changsha, the latter group being an adaptation of Chinese architecture. It is in connection with this work that Mr. Murphy derived his inspiration for the careful study of the buildings of the "Forbidden City" at Peking, which led to his permanent interest in the adaptation...
...underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin's mausoleum but none has been forthcoming. All that time I have worked to improve the original design. ... I made hundreds of' sketches, plans and colored drawings showing...
...This most modern of monkeyhouses was designed by Architects Ellery S. Husted and Richard A. Kimball of Manhattan, enterprising young Valemen, associated with famed Architect James Gamble Rogers...
...years ago the young men of Yale wandered through the splendors of Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and marveled. They drew inspiration from other works of Architect James Gamble Rogers, praised with President James Rowland Angell the "splendid uprush" of collegiate Gothic. There were few iconoclasts to denounce the theatrical charm of Wrexham Court and its tower ("copy of Wrexham Tower, England, built 1506"), or the artificially-cracked window panes and impressive, scholarly gloom of Harkness chambers which resulted from the building being designed principally from the outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic...
...well-known modern Swedish architect, visiting Yale a while ago, was shown the [Sterling] Library while it was still unfinished and the 16-story Book Tower stood only as a structure of steel girders and braces in geometric patterns. 'Ah!' said the architect, looking up in surprise and relief, 'at last you are doing something really modern at Yale. ... Of course you will do no more than cover the steel tower with glass?' . . . How utterly must he have been disgusted to see stone vaults, instead of supporting the roof, being supported by the roof! Or to see buttresses, instead...