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...University has decided on a site and an architect for a group of dormitories to house married students. Construction should start in 14 to 18 months...
...apartments will be distributed in "several buildings," Wiggins said, but he refused any exact descriptions until after the architect's plans have been released. The firm of Sert, Jackson, and Gourley will design the dormitories...
...afternoon in 1890 the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan bustled into the office of his chief draftsman, Frank Lloyd Wright, and tossed onto the table his plans for a new building in St. Louis. "Look at it!" cried Sullivan triumphantly. "It's tall! Sullivan had good reason to boast: he had given form and logic to the skyscraper for the first time. A readable and richly illustrated new book called Architecture Today and Tomorrow (McGraw-Hill; $17.50) takes off from that boast to trace the rise of modern architecture-and the lively rebellion against it among the modernists themselves...
Less than Ecstatic. Delighted though they were that their City Opera had suitable quarters for the first time since the end of the war, West Berliners were less than ecstatic about Architect Fritz Bornemann's barren modern design. The opera's enormous, slablike stone fagade, 660 ft. long and 126 ft. high, was quickly dubbed the "Wailing Wall...
Died. Sumner Welles, 68, urbane, aristocratic architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants...