Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With appropriate ceremonies the result of General Electric's further cogitations was unveiled on the eleventh floor of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan last week: a $5,500 five-room house, also air-conditioned, also equipped with gadgets. To design the Future House, as the new experiment is called, General Electric months ago held an architectural competition. The prize-winning house proved still too expensive for their purposes. Future House as erected last week was an adaptation of the plan of Architects Walker & Gillette, No. 20 in the program...
...general course in art, not too ambitions, should be devised for those who wish only a cultural background and a method of appreciation. In every field of Art, whether it be History, Philosophy, or Design, a specialist could get adequate training at Harvard. But there is no course which a man who only wants a general idea of the subject, can take. He can take four courses and be well filled. But any one of them leaves his head full of ideas which, owing to his inadequate experience in other fields, he cannot hold...
Fine Arts, 1a, a course in "the Principles of Drawing and Painting and the Theory of Design," could not be better. The purpose of it, in the words of Mr. Field, the instructor, is to help students "look at pictures intelligently and with pleasure...
Perhaps such a course could be one in modern or near modern etchings, the philosophy behind them, the technique of executing, their design and their history. Or perhaps a course with a wider scope but which would be narrowed down by a theses. In other words, the idea would be to narrow down the philosophical and historical scope of the present courses in the fields of History and Philosophy of Art, and to include in the new combination as much of 1a concretizing advantages as possible...
...Ross was a lecturer in the theory of design at Harvard since 1899 until his death early in September. He wrote many books on Oriental art, and was one of the first to penetrate Cambodia, a region in Indo-China, for artistic research. It was he who introduced Persian pottery to the Boston public, as well as awaken an interest in the colored tile of this region. Although he was a profuse collector, Dr. Ross kept few objects for himself, giving the majority to either the Boston Museum or the Fogg...