Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of creating for Chicago in 1933 a World Fair which shall never be tiresome, always stimulating, was in full stride last week. The architectural committee and Norman Bel Geddes, famed Manhattan man-of-all-design, gamester (TIME, March 4), who functions as an advisor, had begun talking details...
...Dawes,* the Fair's president. Long a journalist (Washington Times, Columbus News, Minneapolis Tribune), Dr. Albert has, since 1906, specialized in the sober-sided science of city-planning. But he agrees with the Fair planners that the impermanence of a fair makes it appropriate for gala moods, daring design, Arabian Nightlike fantasies...
During Commencement Week the School of Architecture will exhibit work done in the School during the past year in exhibitions which will be arranged in Robinson Hall and in the Old Fogg Museum. Drawings from the life classes, freehand drawing, water color, and architectural design, will be included...
...preliminary competition consisted in the design of an island estate on a topographical survey chart which was sent to all contestants. Only 14 hours were allowed for completing the preliminary drawing. The final competition, which will be judged on June 29, consists in the completion and elaboration of the preliminary plan, and the submission of drawings and specifications for carrying out the proposed development. The contestants are required to work in private, receiving no advice or criticism of any sort...
Presses whirred last week in the U. S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing, turning out a new 2? stamp. Standard size, standard red color, it will commemorate the golden jubilee of Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb (TIME, May 27). Design : The bulb, rays of light; the caption, "Edison's First Lamp...