Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luncheon of the National Conference on Planning, he sat red-faced through a speech by Architect Walter H. Thomas, who declared: "Most of our American cities are a flop, so far as being decent places in which to live and work. They are encumbered with the two bad twins of blight and flight and an attitude of 'who cares?' Philadelphia is afflicted with all three. . . . Instead of cleaning out our slums we apparently are waiting for them to disintegrate...
...other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well-to-do farming family, studied engineering at Lehigh University. Henry, a mining engineer, worked...
...notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where you had to stick in one rut till you died in it? Could anyone live the full life today? Vag sported, then blew...
EPISODE ON WEST 8TH STREET-Jule Brousseau-Smith & Durrell ($2.50). A murky, painstaking story of a few New Yorkers: a distraught sweatshop Jew who kills his boss, an unemployed architect and his wife, a suicidal Polish girl from the Pennsylvania coal patches. Rather Greenwich-Villagesque, but definitely talented...
...schools of London and Parts to New York in 1938. Famed as the creator of the Purism movement in modern art, he has exhibited regularly in Paris and other centers since 1910. In France he founded the review "L'Elan" and, in collaboration with Le Corbusier, the famous French architect, he published the review "L'Esprit Nouveau," beginning in 1920. The latter had important influence on the development of modern...