Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announcing the opening of the new Department of Regional and City Planning at the Graduate School of Design, Dean Hudnut asserted yesterday that the planning of cities is "not only a matter of physical design, but also rooted deeply in social and political life." Head of the new department will be John M. Gaus, professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin...
Franklin Roosevelt did not want inflation. He hated the very word, refused to use it. To stop it he sent a message to Congress, a program which would impose on the U.S. a new design for living...
Franklin Roosevelt already had the power to enforce most of this design. Rationing was about to begin on sugar and East Coast gasoline. This week Leon Henderson clamped down the over-all price ceiling: starting May 11 for wholesalers, May 18 for retailers, prices of shoes and sealing wax are frozen at their levels of last March. Rents in almost all cities also come under the ceiling; so do the prices charged by laundries, tailors, auto-repair shops. All merchants will be licensed; retailers must display the ceiling prices in full view. This was regimentation -the first...
...more than a decade Chicago* led the world, architecturally, its steel-framed, many-storied and many-windowed office buildings setting new standards of functionalism and honesty. In the offices of the great Louis Sullivan, budding Architect Wright learned the famed Sullivan dictum, "form follows function," helped design some of Sullivan's biggest projects, ended by influencing Sullivan himself...
Leaving Sullivan in the 1890s, Wright rapidly evolved a style of his own, a spacious, low-slung type of building, whose simple planes and monolithic unity of design were to remain constant features of Wright houses for many years. A tireless experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture...