Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a competition for an art centre for Wheaton College gave some intimation of how many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work of two beginners. To the celebrated internationalists, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, they gave second prize...
...Wheaton College project has been called the most important competition in U. S. architecture since the world-wide competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922. No such soaring mass of steel and stone, as the 36-story Tribune Building, the College's proposed art centre is nevertheless a sizable, $500,000 building, requiring a theatre to seat 500, a small auditorium for lectures, an art library, workshops, lecture rooms, studios, galleries, soundproof practice rooms for the music department...
Wheaton College itself is a small, earnest institution for female education nestling in a wooded cluster in the village of Norton, Mass.; one of its 22 buildings dates from its founding in 1834. Jointly arranged by the Museum of Modern Art and ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, the competition carried a first prize of $400, several smaller prizes. But Wheaton agreed to hire the winner as architect of the art centre, pay him six per cent of the building's cost as his fee, advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre...
Caleb Hornbostel's father, who won more competitions than any U. S. architect of his day, told his son it was easy to win them: "All you do is put in more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance...
Scarecrow Designer (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-Red) Sue Willa discusses her art on Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight...