Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Adrienne Margaretta Iselin, daughter of Columbus O'Donnell Iselin, potent Manhattan-New Rochelle realtor-financier; to Mr. Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, son of C. P. H. Gilbert, Manhattan architect...
...measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares. Doors which are familiar to all builders as 2 ft. 8 in. by 6 ft. 8 in. become 762 by 2,032 millimeters. An ordinary brick 51 by 101 millimeters. The sizes of sash also are converted into strange units. All architect's drawings will be in new units, involving a most perplexing conversion of current building material units or made upon a system that will involve changes in all woodworking machinery to meet metric units...
...Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent's* symbolic series of world religious history on the walls of the Boston Public Library is almost everywhere considered among the best of modern religious work.† At present Architect Ralph Adams Cram is working on a design for a sports window for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His depiction of polo, golf, tennis, baseball, steeplechasing, cycling, handball, swimming, gymnastics, yachting, bowling, billiards, horse racing, rowing, track athletics, football, skating, hockey, soccer, fencing, wrestling, pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting...
...however, in History 7 at 11 o'clock in Emerson J and in Fine Arts 4a in Robinson Hall at noon. Both hours will see the giant of the Sistine Chapel introduced by Professor Edgell, the first time as a sculptor and a painter, the second time as an architect. A lecture on his sonnets would make it more complete, but the futility of treating completely such a man in any number of lectures is so immense that I must be satisfied...
...announced Mr. Rockefeller's offer prematurely, that is, before Egypt's acceptance was certain. The figure announced was the exceedingly plump one of ten millions. So swift and sweeping was public enthusiasm that the opposition could but dwindle. King Fuad waited to compose his reply, but a Rockefeller architect, fresh from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance of the gift being banked to maintain...