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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...among U. S. colleges. Under the auspices of The American Russian Institute and such distinguished U. S. architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lescaze, Joseph Hudnut, the exhibition illustrates the immense field of Soviet architecture and city planning. Last week, in Robinson Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian architects but by Harvard students. By contrast with their...
When Gropius came to Harvard one long-standing gripe among architectural students was that the "faculty jury," which judged all undergraduate designs, could not be as fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius...
...local, conservative painter named Henry J. P. Billings* sent a strangely affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern...
...sovietized land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized his own company at Farmingdale, L. I., of which he is president, chief designer and test pilot. Many a Seversky design has been derided, but his planes in the air are fast, radical, practical, and he is producing them at the almost unequaled rate...