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...largest in circulation but the richest, most expensive, most comprehensive journal of the building profession is Architectural Forum. Last week TIME Inc., publishers of TIME and FORTUNE, announced it had bought a majority interest in Architectural Forum. Reasons: the several elements of the building world?architects, engineers, contractors, workmen, investors?are at last integrating a great single industry. Early advocate of that integration, Architectural Forum promises to be the leading chronicler of a revolution in Construction in the next decade...
...change in control of Architectural Forum occurred near its 40th birthday. The magazine was founded in 1892 as The Brickbuilder by the firm of Rogers & Manson which currently publishes it. It became Architectural Forum in 1916. In 1928 it was bought by National Trade Journals, Inc. reputedly for $1,000,000. The current building slump cost the magazine heavily in advertising. Year ago it was retrieved at receiver's sale by Rogers & Manson, headed by President Howard Myers. Editorially it lost nothing in the process...
...first to recognize that there is much more than esthetics to architecture, Architectural Forum gave emphasis to the social, economic, structural and financial aspects of the profession. Four years ago it began publishing each monthly issue in two sections, one devoted to design, the other to engineering & business. Notable are the magazine's quarterly reference numbers, each of which is a thoroughgoing text on such subjects as housing, libraries & museums, theatres, hospitals, schools...
...staff of Architectural Forum, with President Myers and Editor Kenneth Kingsley Stowell at its head, will remain unchanged. The magazine will continue publication from its own office in Manhattan's Daily News Building...
...thrones. The long shadow of Napoleon fell across the world and brought fear into the hearts of kings. Austrians stacked their guns before him in the slanting summer sunlight at Austerlitz, Prussians furled their flag at Auerstadt, and in Poland one found a camp and not a forum. Then, in an odd lull, the Bearskins marched out of central Europe into the Beresina ice fields and the world learned that the Emperor was mortal...