Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Burns Robertson, 76, longtime (1912-26) resident architect of Windsor Castle, onetime (1923-24) president of the Windsor & Eton Scientific and Archaeological Society; of heart disease; in Mount Vernon...
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect, iconographer, president of New York City's Art Commission, member of the New York Public Library Board, is as long, as ascetic, as elegantly bearded as an El Greco cardinal. One day in 1934 his long face lengthened further when he came upon an artist in the Public Library earnestly measuring certain unfilled panels on the third floor. The artist told him that the Public Works Art Project would like to fill these spaces with some murals. Mr. Stokes said pessimistically that he would speak to the board...
...students considered this point obvious, they did not know Ozenfant. He is known in Europe as one of the most provocative theoreticians of modern art. Born in Picardy 52 years ago, he began expounding his ideas about it in 1915, later became associated with Modernist Architect Le Corbusier, founded a school of painting called Purism, taught, lectured, wrote books, studied Egyptian, Chinese and Negro art, and raced automobiles until his 40th year, when on a slippery racetrack near Paris, his racer turned over, left him scratched up and convinced that he was too old for that sport...
Large building models, elaborate city maps, complicated street plans, fill a few small rooms of Berlin's Reich Chancellery. In these rooms a young architect-engineer and a middle-aged ruler frequently stay up until 4 a. m. discussing changes, poring over designs. The two conferees are 33-year-old Professor Albert Speer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They determine in these all-night conferences the details of mystic, dreamy Adolf Hitler's pet building project-the reconstruction of Berlin, the remaking of a not-too-beautiful city into a worthy, magnificent capital of Greater Germany...
Caleb Hornbostel's father, who won more competitions than any U. S. architect of his day, told his son it was easy to win them: "All you do is put in more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance...