Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Cass Gilbert, Manhattan architect, by the Society of Arts & Sciences: its 1931 gold medal for architectural achievement; for designing the Woolworth Building (completed 1912), "contributing most conspicuously to the modern movement in architecture...
Four years ago William Atkins, naval architect & designer, and Henry Dike Bixby, former commodore of Long Island's Huntington Yacht Club, founded Fore an' Aft, "class nautical magazine," as something of a hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest...
...Murphy is a native of New Haven where he graduated from Yale in 1899 followed by a year of graduate work in preparation for his career as an architect. In 1914 he visited China in connection with the designing of college buildings for St. Paul's College at Tokyo, and for Yale-in-China at Changsha, the latter group being an adaptation of Chinese architecture. It is in connection with this work that Mr. Murphy derived his inspiration for the careful study of the buildings of the "Forbidden City" at Peking, which led to his permanent interest in the adaptation...
...years ago the young men of Yale wandered through the splendors of Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and marveled. They drew inspiration from other works of Architect James Gamble Rogers, praised with President James Rowland Angell the "splendid uprush" of collegiate Gothic. There were few iconoclasts to denounce the theatrical charm of Wrexham Court and its tower ("copy of Wrexham Tower, England, built 1506"), or the artificially-cracked window panes and impressive, scholarly gloom of Harkness chambers which resulted from the building being designed principally from the outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic...
...well-known modern Swedish architect, visiting Yale a while ago, was shown the [Sterling] Library while it was still unfinished and the 16-story Book Tower stood only as a structure of steel girders and braces in geometric patterns. 'Ah!' said the architect, looking up in surprise and relief, 'at last you are doing something really modern at Yale. ... Of course you will do no more than cover the steel tower with glass?' . . . How utterly must he have been disgusted to see stone vaults, instead of supporting the roof, being supported by the roof! Or to see buttresses, instead...