Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your great story of "Duke's Design" and good old "Buck" Duke (TIME, June 26, p. 55), brings up some of the Duke stories which cover the Carolinas like Buck Duke's Southern hydroelectric power lines and are almost as numerous throughout the South as 5? bags of Duke's Mixture and Bull Durham smoking tobacco...
...complaint of post-War functional architects in the U. S. has been their lack of opportunity to design churches to look like what they are: auditoria. Chief obstacles have been the clergy's caution and a widespread public conviction that ecclesiastical architecture is divorced from the common clay of other 20th Century buildings, should reflect age-old architectural traditions...
...churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm of (Carl J.) Bard & (J. Victor) Vanderbilt came forward with a design that Father Troy recognized...
From 408 competing designs the jury* first chose ten finalists, allowed them five weeks to refine their work, then last week sweated for three days to pick the winner. Not only architecturally but politically popular, it was a design submitted by debt-paying Finland's clearheaded, apple-cheeked Eliel Saarinen, his broad-shouldered, brilliant son, Eero, and his son-in-law, Robert Swanson, all of Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. Professor Hudnut called the prize-($7,500)-winning design "well organized, logical and reasonable . . . yet with classical feeling...
...rest of the country has been catching up with it. Museum workers trained in Dana's "apprentice classes" (another first in the U. S.) have taken his fresh attack into a dozen important museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has adopted a policy of exhibiting industrial design, has added architecture. Most important of all, John Cotton Dana's social philosophy of art inspired the nation's first Federal Art Project through its director, Holger Cahill, who worked under Dana from...