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...conventional architect, young Gaudi was no great shakes. His masters at Barcelona's School of Architecture labeled him a mediocre student. His first professional work, a group of Barcelona workers' cottages, was dull and uninspired. But when a rich Barcelona cotton merchant offered him patronage, Gaudi began to give his lively imagination free rein...
...There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature," Antonio Gaudi used to say. "Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners." In the application of his precept, Catalan Architect Gaudi built some of the most fantastic structures in the world. The walls of a Gaudi designed apartment house rise like eroded cliffs; his roofs are undulating, and wrought-iron leaves bristle from his eaves and sills...
...more pervasive influence on modern design than Walter Gropius. An architect with surprisingly few buildings to show for his 69 years, Gropius has devoted himself mainly to teaching. He headed Germany's Bauhaus ("Building House") from 1919 to 1928, made the school a seedbed of new designs. Since 1938 he has directed Harvard University's department of architecture, graduated hundreds of dedicated moderns...
Married. Sumner Welles, 59, elegant onetime Under Secretary of State (1937-43), a chief architect of the Good Neighbor policy, author on foreign relations (The Time for Decision, Seven Decisions That Shaped History); and Mrs. Harriette A. Post, 57, Manhattan socialite; both for the third time; in Manhattan...
Factory Hazards. Author Payne, who now lives in Montevallo, Ala., was born in Cornwall, the son of a French mother and a British naval architect. He went to school in England and Africa, later studied whatever pleased him in Munich and at the Sorbonne. For a time he worked as a shipwright in England, then, in 1939, he got a job in the yards at Singapore. By that time his books were getting published (one under the pseudonym Valentin Tikhonov). In 1941 he went to China for the British Ministry of Information, wound up with successive jobs at Fuhtan...