Word: architecte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...newcomer to America is the great modern architect Michael Breuer, some of whose works are now on exhibition in Robinson Hall. At the age of thirty-six Breuer is now one of the foremost of Modern architects and it is from his creative genius that a new era in American architecture may spring...
CHOPIN: NOCTURNES (Arthur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor: 2 volumes, 22 sides). Though no towering musical architect, moody, consumptive 19th-Century Chopin still holds his place among the greatest of all lyric composers. Masterly playing by Pianist Rubinstein and excellent sound-reproduction make this first complete phonographic edition of the Nocturnes the month's most distinguished recording...
...United Office and Professional Workers Union (C.I.O.) protested the proposal. Rich St. Louis families who have given the museum gifts and endowments worth $400,000 let it be known that these would lapse if the museum's administration were changed. Remarked the Museum Board's portly president, Architect Louis La Beaume: "There has been nothing like this since the monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn...
...With Architect van der Rohe at Armour this month will be two other old Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...
...Buckminster Fuller as an architect it has been said that he proceeds incoherently to logical conclusions. As a writer he follows the same procedure, leaping from-subject to subject faster than the eye can follow, but usually reaching conclusions notable for their mixture of blunt common sense and intuitive romanticism...