Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Founded by a group of architects and artists including Charles F. McKim, John La Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon...
...that point, when Siercy has come back into Sara's life as an architect whose fine instincts are being tortured by his unhappy marriage, so that you will scarcely blame Sara for leaving child and housekeeping to abscond with him ?at that point they turn on Siercy, who was sadly dished in the first place, and they transform him into a bounder. Incapable of carrying further what they have called Romance, they revile and belittle and finally pity it. They send Siercy away in shabby disgrace and exalt dull William Henry into a nobly understanding husband who mutters modestly...
Ralph Adams Cram, architect for the new cathedral of "St. John the Divine", in New York, will speak at the Fogg Art Museum, at 4:30 o'clock Friday on "The New York Cathedral...
City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased...
...wish to make it plain that we are more interested in contributing to the great architecture of the world than in standardizing the bricks and mortar of which it must be made." Thus Milton B. Medary Jr., Philadelphian, president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome...