Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this realization which led to the fundamental change in Cambridge professional drama over the past year. Largely through the efforts of William Morris Hunt '36, a Boston architect, the group reorganized on the principle of community responsibility. It decided that many people did in fact want to see classical plays. Moreover, it decided that people wanted to see these productions not just for one summer, but every summer...
Faith & Works. Born 68 years ago in the Ruhr Valley, Albers prepared slowly and thoroughly for his distinguished career. After studying and teaching in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he went back to art school at 32 in the Bauhaus, founded by Functional Architect Walter Gropius. At 35 he became a teacher at the Bauhaus, working alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In the craftsmanlike tradition of the school, he designed the first modern bent laminated-wood chair, made stained glass windows out of broken bottles. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus...
...nation's Capitol has been a center of stormy artistic controversy ever since Amateur Architect Dr. William Thornton had to fend off the claims of his professional rival, Stephen Hallet, to get the credit for his 1793 plan. Last week it was once again the focus of debate. At issue this time: a $12 million appropriation voted by the House to start remodeling the east facade (plus another $28.5 million to remodel the two congressional office buildings and begin building a third...
...plan was strenuously opposed by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects and other organizations, and brought forth cries of sacrilege from Manhattan Architect Lorimer Rich, designer of Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, who upheld the Capitol facade as an "invaluable record of our early architecture which should always remain." The building as it stands, the architects argued, is a living record of the work of such men as Thornton, British-born Benjamin Henry Latrobe (responsible for the handsome east fagade), and Boston's Charles Bulfinch (chief restorer of the Capitol after...
...Capitol Architect George Stewart made the case for change. After all, he pointed out, the Capitol has been modified many times since the cornerstone was laid, each architect changing to some extent the work of his predecessor. With an increased number of Representatives since the last expansion of the Capitol and heavier legislative workloads, the Capitol will have to go right on growing. "In fact," said Architect Stewart, "I can see the day-30 or 40 years off-when we'll have to build a new Capitol, a truly functional building. This one will become just a museum...