Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Academicians who grow apoplectic over the "gaspipe & cement block" appearance of buildings in the International Style are grateful for the work its founders have done in low-rent housing...
Like all good architecture, the International Style demands that the new materials at the service of modern architects (reinforced concrete, plate glass, steel, etc.) shall be used honestly. Cement walls must look like cement walls and not be disguised as Gothic masonry...
...International Style as opposed to "modernist" architecture eschews all decoration and ornament. "Functionalism" (a word overworked ad nauseam) is its watchword. Such beauty as their buildings possess is dependent on fine proportion of individual units, clever use of color, and the technically perfect use of materials. (Cement is sometimes poured in glass-lined forms to give it a marble-like polish.) Light is its fetish. Houses look more and more like aquariums. The four apostles of the International Style are two Germans, a Dutchman and a French Swiss, as follows...
...ingenious and valuable equipment. Opened this fall for the first time, several groups of people have been the guests of Dr. Rice on inspection tours. Under his leaderships or that of Weld Arnold '18, instructor in Geography, such tours are apt to start in the basement where a solid cement vault stands at one end of the building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes for the institute the primal fact of geography...
...downed the duty on egg plant (3? to 1½? per lb.), green peppers (3? to 2½? per lb.), crude feldspar ($1 to 50? per ton), turned shoes (20% to 10%), window glass (25%). He left unchanged the tariff on (among other things), lumber, cement, pens, Spanish moss, pineapples, snap beans, cucumbers, okra, fresh tomatoes and lima beans...