Word: architect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things go nowadays one has only a choice of nightmares. Shall it be the old, careless urban nightmare of post-Civil War New York ... or shall it be the new nightmare, a great superblock, quiet, orderly, self-contained, but designed as if the fabulous innkeeper Procrustes had turned architect-a nightmare not of caprice and self-centered individualism but of impersonal regimentation, apparently for people who have no identity but the serial numbers of their Social Security cards...
Last week it seemed likely that the President would not be able to move back into the White House until next fall. The best guess as to the cost of reconstruction, under the supervision of White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow: from...
...name was given to the present Hemenway Gymnasium, with the approval of the donor's family. The present Hunt Hall of the Graduate School of Design was built as a memorial of William Hayes Fogg in 1895 as an Art Museum. It is now a memorial of the architect who designed it while a much worthier memorial of Mr. Fogg is provided by the new museum on Quincy street...
Princeton's library, in the words of its librarian, Julian P. Boyd, is "Gothic on the outside and modernistic on the in side." To Modern Architect William Lescaze that seemed rather like dressing a professor in a suit of armor. Last week he wrote the New York Times an angry letter about...
Behind Two Doors. He usually eats breakfast on the sunny red-tiled loggia, practically naked ("not just in shorts, but often just wearing a handkerchief or something," says Vera). Then he dresses, plunges into his workroom, labors at a table that resembles an architect's and rivals Franklin Roosevelt's for gimcracks: rows of art gum erasers, each neatly labeled, trays of pens, pencils, different colors and kinds of inks. He has two pianos in the narrow room, a grand and an upright, and still does his composing at the piano...