Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Topiarian Club will hold its first open meeting of the season in the Lecture Room of Robinson Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock. President Eliot will speak on "The World and the Landscape Architect." The meeting will be open to members of the University...
...Jean Jacques Haffner, the distinguished French architect who recently accepted a professorship in the Architectural School, took up his duties at the University yesterday afternoon. He did not arrive at Boston till Sunday evening...
Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...
...inclined to agree with the writer that "an airshaft is a vital necessity", where direct ventilation cannot be obtained, but I should like to call his attention to the fact that a tightly-covered airshaft ceases to function as such. It is highly probable that an ingenius architect might devise some simple expedient whereby a current of air might be induced to enter at the base of the shait and escape through a suitable vent at the top, thus securing an adequate circulation of fresh air without admitting rain and snow. Such feats of engineering nave been accomplished...
...ideas for civil development to visitors from all parts of the world. In addition to the plans for the town, there is a set of photographs of scenes in the war area, including the ruins and temporary barracks of the Pinon of today. Contrasted with the latter are the architect's drawings for the new buildings of the model village, which are planned to be modest and artistic, befitting a small farming community...