Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mrs. John Wallace Riddle, 77, self-educated architect, second woman member of the American Institute of Architects, founder-designer of the famed ivy-covered Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Conn., widow of the onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Argentina; of uremic poisoning; in Farmington, Conn...
...Architect to Archimedes...
...wish to call your attention to the fact that the portrait of Archimedes (TIME, July 22) is not a portrait of Archimedes but a well-known painting by Rembrandt, called The Architect, No. 224 in the catalogue of 1888 of the Staatl. Gemäldegalerie at Kassel, Hesse, Germany...
...Reader Loewenbaum's sharp eyes failed to detect the faint signature, "C. Glinzer, 1867." The painting is a copy of Rembrandt's The Architect, and Copyist Glinzer chose to call it Archimedes (who was no mean architect...
...devastated countries which will need help in rebuilding, France, having borne the brunt of German occupation on her twice-contested land, seems to me foremost. The pioneer French functional architect, Edouard Le Corbusier, an adviser to the French Minister of Reconstruction and Town planning, has estimated that 150,000 new communities will be needed in France to replace those destroyed. Speaking, however, of those civilians who must have immediate but temporary shelter, he says: "They don't want a new, clean, modern town. They just want to rebuild the same old hovels on the same old spots where their grandfathers...