Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casts of some of the Cathedral's lyrical sculpture. But the surest source of data are French Government records, if they are intact. The Third Republic maintained bureaus which filed detailed descriptions of every important historic building in the country. There was also for Chartres a state-supported architect in residence, whose office knew every stone of the building...
...U.S.A. is an argument for the clean beauty and intelligence of modern architecture, it also makes obvious how much a luxury good modernism remains. Many of the buildings in the book are obviously pleasure domes of great expense. All of the buildings imply the services of a modern architect, beyond the reach of ordinary pocketbooks except in the case of a few new low-cost housing developments. Modern architecture for the general public still waits for public taste to demand it from reactionary building contractors and building-trade unions...
...This week Tokyo announced that' the Empire's Naval Minister, Shigetaro Shimada, stocky, cherry-lipped architect of Japan's most recent naval disasters (TIME, July 3), had been dropped from the Cabinet. But it was not an out-&-out sacking. Shimada will keep his other job as Chief of Naval Staff, thus be able to devote full time to finding tactical remedies for the Empire's critical plight in the Pacific. His successor as Naval Minister: Admiral Naokuni Nomura,* expert in submarine and torpedo techniques...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, No. 1 U.S. modernist architect. Wright would "get further" if he "tried an experiment on a reasonable scale, frankly called it an experiment . . . refrained from announcing that it was the pattern of all future American living...
Died. Benjamin H. Marshall, 70, design-for-living architect; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. He. designed Chicago's Blackstone, Drake and Edgewater Beach hotels, New York's Maxine Elliott Theater and Philadelphia's Forrest, for himself designed a pink, gaudy, tricked-up house which boasted a Ming bed that slept seven, a dining table that came up with the soup course, sank to the kitchen below, came back with the chicken and gravy...