Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Lloyd Wright, the most uncompromising and one of the most fertile U. S. architects of the 20th Century, has worked with no school or organization except his own small colony of disciples at Taliesin, Wis. What another gifted architect, Manhattan's William Lescaze, calls "the first principle of architecture-building what we need out of what we have that best serves the purpose, using the best tools available," is not studied in schools of architecture so much as is the record of the needs, materials and tools of architecture in the past. This is the eclectic tradition fostered...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...head it, the association's astute Executive Director Norma K. Stahle first tried to engage Architect Gropius. Having just accepted Harvard's invitation (TIME, Feb. 8), Gropius declined, suggested that Moholy-Nagy, then working on photography and cinema in London, was "the best man they could get." In response to a flood of cables and letters from Miss Stahle and from Gropius, chunky Moholy-Nagy finally accepted a five-year contract. Last summer, while workmen were knocking down walls in the old Marshall Field mansion and making parlors into draughting rooms, the New Bauhaus director arrived in Chicago...
...Famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
...third type of Mr. Lougee's work, being essentially decorative in purpose, shows many interesting ideas in color. These, he says, may be utilized by the architect or decorator in the decorative design of interiors, or to increase the emotional pleasure of architecture over and above its functional value...