Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Frank Lloyd Wright of Spring Green, Wis. has not been appointed to the commission of architects that is designing Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition for 1933,earnest esthetes gathered in Manhattan auditoriums three nights in succession last week to thumb their long intelligent noses at the Commission,-to honor the man they consider the greatest living architect. Architect Wright, who has never considered bashfulness a blessing, presided like a benign deity over all three meetings: at the University Club, at Town Hall, at the New School for Social Research...
...Sullivan was given a Transportation Building to do in a back lot of the Fairgrounds, which was heartily damned by U. S. conservatives but promptly won a medal awarded by the visiting French commission of art. The 1933 exposition is to be modernistic, a style which European architects acknowledge stems directly from Louis Sullivan's Transportation Building and the houses that Frank Wright has been designing for nearly 30 years. For the 1933 Fair, Architect Wright has not been given even a back lot job to work...
With considerable courage, Architect Raymond Hood, a member of the despised Commission, was present. Perspiring with embarrassment, he came forward to say a few words in defense. No one admired Architect Wright more than Architect Hood, but Architect Wright had not been chosen for the committee because he was "too much of an individualist...
Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...
...that she could wish nor will Philadelphia do. Her mother does not appreciate her. So after a few days with her confidant-father she goes to New York where one of her friends, away from town, has loaned her a studio. Delice hunts up a young and attractive architect, Graeme Borden, whom she has met at her Como villa and secretly loves. Dorn, concerned about Delice, arranges to spend a few days in New York and stay at the studio with her. He is amazed upon arriving to discover that Delice is Borden's, body & soul...