Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This man, lamous as a sculptor, architect, musician, mechanician engineer, philosopher, but particularly as a painter, was the son of a Florentine lawyer, born out of wedlock by a mother of humble station. From early age he showed that he possessed the spark which was to burst forth into the flame of genius. He was not one of those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade...
Clark University's symposium on ghosts (TIME, Dec. 13), drew to a close. Frederick Bligh Bond, British psychic researcher and architect, described the helpful conduct of a departed spirit during excavating work at mystical Glastonbury Abbey, 20 years ago. A friend of Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey...
...Blossom is the first landscape architect to explore and study the gardens of old Spain. He is also the first who has ever made a systematic collection of photographs of the Spanish patios...
...Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
...Builder-Architect Graham, under Designing Architect Daniel H. Burnham, built the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 20. He built that early century wonder, the Flatiron Building, and the new $31,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan; the Union Station on Capitol Hill at Washington, the Union Trust Building of Cleveland. He built all of Marshall Field's stores in Chicago, the Field Museum, the Railway Exchange, the Continental & Commercial Bank. He built the Selfridge stores in London. He put up the first Chicago skyscraper, for Gumman Wrigley, and the Straus skyscraper. During...