Word: architects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thomas Bruce was appointed British minister to Constantinople. The architect whom be had with him, urged him to have casts and drawings made of the remaining sculptures of the Parthenon. Failing to interest Pitt, the prime minister at this time, in his plan, Lord Elgin turned to English artists, but the demands of these were so far beyond his means that he abandoned his project for the time. On his way to Constantinople he stopped at Palermo where he succeeded in obtaining the services of an Italian artist with five assistants. With these he proceeded to Athens...
...extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...architect of the new athletic building asserts that the rowing tank will be ready for use by January first at the latest...
...students are spending their money and inconveniencing themselves-waiting apparently endressly. It is not our purpose to take sides on the question of the law suit. In the first place we have no knowledge of the point in question beyond the bare fact that the university complains that the architect has not finished the building at the specified time, and the architect that the university delayed in awarding the contracts for the construction of the various stories. Wherever the truth of the question may lie, the fact remains the same that it is an injustice to the students to delay...
...Propylaea together with views illustrating the architecture, he succeeded in giving his audience a very definite idea of the Propylaea and its surroundings. His study of the architecture of the building was particularly interesting, for in the Propylaea we have an excellent example of what a really great architect can accomplish even under the rigid restrictions of the Greek school. The problem which the sloping rock of the Acropolis presented to the architect has been particularly well solved...