Word: designate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward K. True and Huson T. Jackson, associate professors of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, have been appointed full professors effective July 1, Dean Jose Luis Sert announced yesterday...
...same time, Vincent J. Solomita will become assistant professor of Design and Albert Szabo will become assistant professor of Architecture...
France's Le Corbusier will design a massive sports stadium; Finland's Alvar Aalto is at work designing a civic center, with library and art gallery; Germany's Werner March is drafting plans for a $3,500,000 museum; Walter Gropius' Cambridge (Mass.) Architects Collaborative hopes to have a plan for a new university, with mosque, ready by next September; Italy's Designer-Architect Gio Ponti has already designed a ten-story headquarters for the Iraq Development Board and an eight-story office building for GORA (Government Oil Refineries Administration...
Died. Norman Bel Geddes, 65, stage and industrial designer, father of Actress Barbara Bel Geddes; of a heart attack, while lunching at Manhattan's University Club. Irrepressibly creative Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from ashtrays to sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture, downtown Toledo, motor cars, gasoline stations, the interiors of Pan American Airways' China Clippers, Fifth Avenue store windows, a tent without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first...
Saturday afternoon, Pusey attended a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh on the role of universities in the "renaissance" of great cities. Others from Harvard participating in the discussion were Jose L. Sert, Dean of the School of Design, and John C. Snyder, Dean of the School of Public Health...