Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initials. Born in Holland in 1890. he became a disciple, at a distance, of Wisconsin's Frank Lloyd Wright. His own style developed slowly. In 1928 he published a number of Cubist projects for workmen's houses which won him an appointment as City Architect of Rotterdam. He is responsible for Rotterdam's Spangen and Tuschendijken municipal housing development and numerous private houses. Critics find him the most refined and conscientious of the workers in the International Style...
Lench's theory is that architectural schools teach design, engineering, freehand, water colour, history, and other subjects pertaining to the profession of architecture, but leave out one fundamental in failing to teach a man how to be an architect. All of the fundamentals which determine the real character of a building are discussed and determined in the private office of the head of the firm. The draftsman, let alone the architectural student, is entirely unaware of what is going on. Mr. Lench is attempting in his course to take the student into the private office. He will use a case...
Lench, who received his Bachelor's degree in architecture from Syracuse and did graduate work at Harvard, has been a successful commercial architect in New York and is the author of a book entitled "Promotion of Commercial Buildings...
...modern world, architecture is the art most closely allied to business. The writer or painter can confine himself strictly to his own work, but the architect is compelled to deal with questions of real estate, engineering and even of law, which have no place in the study of architecture proper. The necessity for learning these things after graduation unduly prolongs the apprenticeship of the young architect. The opening of a clinic in the Architectural School of discuss these business aspects of the profession is a timely and intelligent move...
...long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member of its first board. He became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year, its historian. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Owen D. Young's: "Commercial banking, both at home...