Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator of a design should follow it through with the draughtsmen, landscapists and constructors. He was al ways enthusiastic about his projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects should not try to imitate what has gone before but at the same time should keep in the traditions, that the radical...
Looking at their new opera curtain before it rises for the first time Monday night, Chicagoans may be reminded of another design, just as elaborate and colorful but more serious and a million times as big. To sketch this second design adequately requires a good-sized map of the U. S. The sketch can begin almost anywhere-on the coast of Maine, in Florida, or at the bottom tip of Texas. There is an irregular quadrilateral of it in North Carolina. A vast, nearly solid mass of it spreads east, west and south from Chicago. There are patches...
Compared to this second design, the fantastic curtain revel-in fact the whole Chicago opera organization-becomes no more than Punch-&-Judy. Yet it is Punch-&-Judy on the very largest scale. To make the scale larger, the Chicago company is sent, in the Insull manner, all over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...
...portraitist, one-time fashion artist for Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair). Many of the painters are hitherto unknown to the U. S. One of them-Mme. Tamara de Lempicka -attracted much attention with her monotone grey Portrait of Doctor B(oucard), as meticulously drawn as a machine design. Mme. de Lempicka is a Polish woman who lives in Paris...
...Civil Engineer de gree) then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Que bec, Toledo, Keokuk, Iowa, Celilo, Ore., Cincinnati, New London, Conn., Philadelphia, Memphis, Manhattan. He is now building one at Louisville. For his genius at bridge building one scientific society after another has granted him medals and prizes of honor: Franklin Institute (Potts...