Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Architect van der Rohe at Armour this month will be two other old Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...
...proposal that the house be set up by being dropped from a Zeppelin a little visionary. Although it excited less discussion, critics were more impressed by his model bathroom exhibited in Manhattan four months ago, supplanting the present complex arrangement of pipes and drains with a unified, economical design as symmetrical as a piece of metal sculpture...
...clarify, by research, "the native background of the arts," and 2) to break up the big city monopoly on Art by getting people all over the U. S. interested in art as an everyday part of living and working. To accomplish the first aim, the Index of American Design was set up in January 1936, and to date has employed about 500 watercolorists and draftsmen in digging up old wood carving, weathervanes, costumes, toys, needlework, china, and other craft objects of which more than 8,000 renderings, of marvelous exactitude, have already been made. This compilation...
Prominently located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Kirkland Street on the site of the old Hemenway Gymnasium, this impressive structure of Georgian design will house the Graduate School of Public Administration, located in Hunt Hall. The exterior of this edifice, composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Chelmsford granite backed up by 300,000 bricks, has already been constructed...
Their first months were a struggle to build a dining room and studio, whose modernistic design drove native workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...