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...Architect Walter Meier was in a quandary when he went to work. The ground-site, cramped between two high buildings, was fixed at 72 ft. x 100 ft. A tall church was not wanted. But it was imperative that the seating capacity be more than doubled...
...basement church with separate altar; a nave proper on the street level with a high altar surrounded by balconies. But the church fathers objected. The balconies would make the church too much like a cinema palace. The scheme was abandoned. Last week those at the dedication viewed and approved Architect Meier's final effort...
...pulsating Mexican color. Wrote Critic Arthur Millier of the Los Angeles Times: "The wall has been energized by the genius of Orozco until it lives as probably no wall in the United States today." Long-legged Arnold Ronnebeck of the Denver Times was even more enthusiastic. Added Sumner Spaulding, architect of Pomona's dining hall...
Roger and Harry grew up in the same small town, went to school and college together, were always friends. Harry was popular, ordinary, successful. Roger was unpopular, unsuccessful; otherwise quite like Harry. When they graduated from their Philadelphia college both entered the same architect's office. When the War came Harry enlisted, for no good reason; Roger stayed at home because he thought war was silly and architecture not, eventually married one of Harry's girls. He and Alice had a hard time, because Roger's architectural ideas were a little too pure to be successful, also because his mind...
...them from all points of view. The purpose of the trip is to procure all available data on American libraries, before the building of a new one for Cambridge University. While here, the visitors will look at Widener and the Baker Memorial libraries. Sir Scott, who is a prominent architect, is especially interested in American libraries from the standpoint of their construction; the group is also studying all mechanics of the buildings, such as the cataloguing and arrangement...