Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical scholarships, hospitals, asylums, and all her other welldoing, Mrs. Rockefeller set aside a certain amount of her own Aldrich money for art. As a collector's budget, it was no vast sum. All the pictures that she has since given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government in 1934 for one Raphael Madonna (TIME...
...Richardson really knew very little about Romanesque architecture. His ornament was original, more often Syrian than Romanesque. In all his churches the object most admired by the public-at-large, the tower of Boston's Trinity Church, was not designed by Richardson at all. It was an adaptation by the slickest of exterior decorators, the late Stanford White, then a draughtsman in the Richardson office, of the lantern of Salamanca Cathedral, added when Trinity's builders announced that they were unable to execute Richardson's more original first design...
...from a West Point appointment. He was the second famed U. S. architect to study his profession in Paris.* Once back in his native country his success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after graft and mismanagement had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects...
Improvements in Design...
...Harvard school fully realizes that all of these aspects are essential to planning but it believes that with the facilities in design afforded by its close relation to the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture it should emphasize physical planning as the field of its more specific professional training, increasing, however, the present interrelation of its work with other departments of the University specializing in other interlocking parts of the whole planning problem...