Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when the Public Works Administration began to build its biggest, most expensive ($13.500,000), most admirably planned housing project, in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn (TIME, April 18), Consulting Architect William Lescaze and Burgoyne Diller, head of the Federal Art Project's New York City mural division, decided to try abstract murals in the project's ten recreation rooms, each entrusted to a single artist. By last week, murals were installed in two rooms. Last week, blue-eyed Mr. Diller, harassed but proud, was finally sure enough of WPA's abstract murals to exhibit some...
...visit. If art students reel less easily nowadays it is not because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation when he took the occasion of his victory to comment darkly on the dark outlook for modern architects...
...Liang Ssu-Ch'eng, distinguished Chinese architect and archaeologist, and Professor Josef Albers, of Black Mountain College, will be visiting lecturers next year at the Department of Architecture...
...work of 15 architects and 50 artists, the Nieuw Amsterdam's, public rooms and cabins impressed U. S. travelers last week with the uniformity of taste lavished on third class, tourist and cabin class alike. Solid, cleanly built furniture, beautiful fabrics, opulent rugs, plenty of light and unobtrusive color harmonies of silver, beige and light yellow were more important to the general effect than the occasional murals and ornamental work in metal, wood and glass. In an apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood...
...Samuel, still adamantine, died in 1929. Four years later the Samuel Memorial Committee obeyed the first provision of Mrs. Samuel's will by holding a world competition for sculpture-to be grouped in three terraces designed by Philadelphia's smartest architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction...