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Champions & Critics. In architecture as in big business, Luckman has strong champions and critics. The critics grumble that he is more a businessman than an architect. "He is successful," says one top Chicago architect coolly, "because he produces anonymous architecture in a prescribed time and at the least cost and fuss to his clients." Luckman denies only the "anonymous" part of that charge. He insists that "I'm in this business not for security but for satisfaction" Kansas City-born, Luckman was graduated magna cum laude in architecture from the University of Illinois ('31). But Depression pressures pushed...
...ways, it took Marin 40 years to find himself. Raised by two maiden aunts in Weehawken. N.J. (his mother died nine days after his birth), he attended Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, drifted from job to job, spent six frustrating years trying to turn himself into an architect. Finally, he went to Paris to study art-and in 1909 had the luck to meet Photographer Edward Steichen. As soon as Steichen got back to Manhattan, he showed a few Marin watercolors to his old friend Alfred Stieglitz, whose now legendary gallery was the first to show such...
...racing within reach of the only moderately rich with his Malabar class of small rugged schooners derived from Gloucester fishing smacks, proved the soundness of his designs by becoming the first man to win three Bermuda regattas, and set more of his hulls afloat than any other U.S. marine architect; of a stroke; near Orlando...
...from Architecture. Léger's artistic beginnings were in architecture; he was apprenticed at 16 to an architect in Caen, and he went on to serve in the office of another architect in Paris before he embarked on a painting career of his own. He passed through a brief phase of impressionism, but rejected it as belonging to a "naturally melodious" era gone...
...Abramovitz, a New York City architect with the firm of Harrison and Abramovitz, has been selected to design Radcliffe College's fourth House and library-study center, President Bunting announced yesterday...