Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projects in the making. Most advanced was at Dayton where some co-operative workers were already moving into their new homes scattered in small groups in the outskirts of the city. An entirely different type of project is at Monticello, Ga., where work under an expert engineer and architect was well under way by last week. There, 75 miles from the President's own Warm Springs, 12,000 acres of old estates have been bought up, and buildings are being reconditioned, so that farmers from ''rural slums" can be settled in better surroundings. At Reedsville...
...bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told him Once that he'd ought to nail that board, in place. . . ." The Author. Elder brother of Author Oliver La Farge (Laughing Boy, Sparks Fly Upward), son of Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, grandson of Painter John La Farge, Christopher ("Kipper") Grant La Farge, 37, is as versatile as the rest of his family. Though his vocation is architecture (he works in his father's office) he has numerous arty hobbies, such as painting in water color, designing...
...Marnus, the eminent Danish architect, will give a public lecture in Robinson Hall on Tuesday at 4.30 o'clock...
Competitive plans for the structure were first submitted in 1931 to a jury whose most noteworthy member was Dictator Stalin. First prize was shared by a British-born New Jersey architect, Hector 0. Hamilton, and two Soviet architects, B. M. Iofan and I. V. Zholtovsky (TIME, March 1, 1932). Further decisions eliminated Architect Hamilton who dejectedly blamed his British birth, threatened a suit. Last week the accepted plans of Architects Iofan, Goldfreich and Shchuko were fi- nally released and the world had an opportunity to examine the newest Soviet colossus...
Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...