Word: architects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This ratio of art and mechanics is exactly reversed in later American architecture. No man in his right senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five...
...Nelson Robinson Jr. Professorship of Architecture, which has been vacant since Professor H. L. Warren Hon. '02, held it between they year of 1903 and 1917, has been conferred on Professor Jean J. Haffner. Professor Haffner is an eminent French architect who is now at the University...
...speaker of the evening will be Guy Lowell '92, bice-president of the Italy-America Society. He is a well-known architect and the winner of several medals for valor...
...Architect Harry Allen Jacobs outlined a plan for furnishing Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, with a double-decked sidewalk, supported by imposing columns, whereby the lower sidewalk could be narrowed to give more room to traffic. On elaborate charts hung here and there, the future of London, Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, the City of Mexico and wherenot were delineated...
...architect of great distinction, having erected notable buildings in various parts of Spain and South America, as well as in Barcelona. Puig I Cadafalch was in charge of the buildings for the International Exposition...