Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
Nobody hates cities more than patriarchal U. S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. To him Manhattan is a "great huddle" whose skyscrapers are "one of the most infernal inventions." Nevertheless it was in Manhattan's great huddle last week that the Museum of Modern Art put on a huge exhibition of the life work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The 71-year-old architect went to Manhattan himself to install the exhibition...
...jumble of diagrams left non-technical gallerygoers wondering what most of it meant. But for those who could tell a cantilever from a truss, it recorded as exciting a body of architectural thinking as has come from the brain of anyone since Michelangelo. Regarded by many as the greatest architect of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright is conceded even by skeptics to have one of the most restless and imaginative minds the art of architecture has ever known. Architect Wright began designing functional buildings in 1893, fathered the whole international modern architecture movement. In his 48 years of architecture...
...Much of Architect Wright's early work looked familiar to last week's visitors, because nearly every apartment-house designer today uses ideas that Wright thought up more than a generation ago. More startling were designs of buildings erected in the past ten years like the Johnson Wax factory at Racine, Wis., whose flimsy-looking mushroom pillars (broad at the top and narrow at the base) involved a brand-new contribution to engineering...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...