Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day slumbering Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage...
Three months ago General Electric Co. invited every architect, engineer, draftsman and designer in the U. S. to submit plans for two types of houses in a $21,000 prize contest. Result: The greatest single collection of architects' drawings (2,100) assembled since Depression logjammed the housing industry. Last week the drawings, suspended from wires like baby's diapers on a laundry line, were put on display for a jury in General Electric's Manhattan building...
Designer of American Houses' prefabricated unit is also its board chairman. Architect Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. had already achieved fashionable success as a designer of rich men's homes when he built his first prefabricated house for Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. at Hazelton, Pa. in 1932. When Depression pointed up the need for low-cost housing, he persuaded some of his Princeton classmates to help him set up a company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect...
...Banker-Painter-New Dealer Edward Bruce was given no prize last week, he was as fully rewarded by being elected an associate member of the Academy. So were 14 others. Among them: Painter Maurice Sterne, Architect Paul P. Cret, Illustrator Everett Shinn, Sculptor Hilda Kristina Lascari, only woman to be made an A. N. A. this year...
Died. Roger Harrington Bullard, 50, architect; of pneumonia; in Plandome, N. Y. He designed country clubs and socialite country houses, won a gold medal in 1933 in a Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...