Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride of English debaters. Last week Cox Swartwout argued...
...York, able, bristle-haired Architect Raymond Hood (Chicago World's Fair) approves the idea of cities consciously rebuilding themselves as a cure for unemployment, points out that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years and likely to be reduced. He adds another thought...
...fact that modern office buildings have so short a life has been the greatest thing in the world for modern architecture. It frees the architect. Gives him a chance to use his imagination. See here, take my necktie [speckled green & brown]. If I thought that this necktie would have to last me for the rest of my life, I'd pick out something pretty conventional, pretty safe and pretty dull. But since I will probably get another necktie in a month or two I can afford to take a chance...
...long double row of lecture halls, library, students' union, auditorium. Behind the chapel is the stadium. All is modern, thoroughly equipped, efficient. In the students' union are shiny dish-washing and potato-peeling machines. In the theatre is the latest cinema for 150. The stadium seats 35,000. Architect of the whole scene is Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia, who frankly and freely drew upon the best features of Oxford and Cambridge for his inspiration. The net result is a synthesis of extraordinary completeness and perfection, incongruous though a brand-new medieval community may seem in a Carolina forest...
Enthusiastic about the Magic House (which will sell for less than $5,000) was well-known Modernist Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, co-architect of the Chicago World's Fair and of Manhattan's much- criticized Radio City (TIME, March 16). Said...