Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effecting this change of emphasis from conventions, as dean of Columbia's Architectural School, he abolished the competitive method and substituted individual instruction; he brought together more intimately building construction and design; and he introduced economics, business law, and a little experience in city planning...
With antique chairs of every period piled high on crates and boxes, and chests of intricate design, hailing from some crumbling monastery, treasure troves of fascinating relice--all waiting to be fumigated--the basement of the museum has the aspect of a veritable storehouse. Judging by the array of articles awaiting their turn, the process will be a lerthy...
...works of Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., also graduated in 1935, were chosen. One of these, "A Wine Collar and Tap Room," won the Boston Society of Architecture prize, the other is a thesis, a design for "A Municipal Sports Building...
...Foyer Dedicated to Stradivarius," by George W. Browster, Jr., a second year man at the School, and a pair of identical sheets, which are reproductions of an extremely involved sketch showing the "Correlation of Function, Design, and Construction," by Richard H. Cutting, graduated in 1934, make up the remainder of the list...
...root of Peter Quennell's analysis is that Byron was bisexual, a theory not developed in Frances Winwar's less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she had become his virulent enemy. Prevented from publicly proclaiming his love for his sister, he married, choosing as his wife a prim, exact intellectual whom he did not love and whose highbrow affectations amused him and his friends. He took his bride to his sister's home, tormenting her with...