Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost an answer to every architect's dream, Widener Reference Room is multi-purpose. Quite cosmopolitan, it caters to all types of clientele without sacrificing its dignity...
...think it's filthy," declared famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright,* 83, in the big city for a brief inspection tour. "It's 3 greatly overgrown village. It has phases unworthy of a great city-trucks mixed with taxicabs and private conveyances, the whole thing a melee, and then the garbage set out on the streets. Very village-like." Wright added that Alexander Weollcott had once defined New Yorkers as "Midwesterners with ulcers...
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Died. Leo Pasvolsky, 59, Russian-born architect of the United Nations charter and economics expert at Brookings Institution; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter...
Last week Munich was getting a new church to replace the old Neo-Renaissance building, but it was not the kind most churchgoers expected. For their design, the Lutherans had turned to Architect Gustav Gsaenger, 53, asked him for something that would cost no more than to rebuild the old church, yet would hold twice as large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have...