Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congress has already provided a site for a National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Smithsonian Institution has commissioned Charles Adams Platt to design the building (TIME, April 21). Last week, Congress was formally asked to appropriate $2,500,000 for the building-about one-third of what it will cost. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts did the asking...
Born in Germany, the young Leyendecker was brought to Chicago by his parents at the age of six. He attended the Art Institute where he specialized in the design of stained glass windows, later going to Paris and studying at the Academic Julien. For the last 15 years, he made his home in New Rochelle and established a reputation as an illustrator for commercial and magazine cover work. Leyendecker was much admired for his crisp, clear style. His death is a loss to the field of good commercial...
...departure in collegiate building design has been made by the adoption of Massachusetts Hall, the oldest college structure in America, as the keynote of the architecture. This famous old building has just been the scene of a fire, and press dispatches at the time united in calling it "the most beautiful college building in America...
...represents beauty in design with economy of construction and absence of excessive ornamentation. This is why President Lowell and Dean Donham of the Business School selected its type of architecture to dominate the group which Bishop Lawrence says "will be a great symbol of what right business means to the nation and a great memorial to the part great business men have played in the development of the country from Colonial times to the present day." Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia buildings has influenced the architecture of the most striking building...
...Library is so designed that the stacks can be extended, and the whole building can be doubled, without in any way changing the present design. It is now planned to house 150,000 volumes...