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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure for young Mr. Hebald...
...that each one loses much of its significance. This is particularly true in the first section describing how the administrator of a university can do his work effectively. Although Dr. Lowell says it is not a description of what was actually done but rather a sketch of how a design can be executed, at the same time, if he had enlarged this section and drawn more specifically from his own experience, it would have been a very illuminating chapter. As it is, only other college administrators could really appreciate its significance...
...plans for the Calvert family of Los Angeles (income $3,000 to $4,000), for whom Modernist William Wilson Wurster's graceful patio house out-pointed Traditionalist H. Roy Kelley's "California Colonial." A walkaway for the moderns was provided by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified...
Born in Hungary and educated in Germany, Breuer brings to his works an international aspect, for he has traveled and practiced in Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, and the Mediterranean countries. Based on thoroughly modern principles of design, his works, however, do not stand out like sore thumbs upon the landscape as do so many of the buildings of his contemporaries, for he has been able to incorporate into his style vernacular and traditional details which adapt the works to the surroundings in which they are placed...
Other enrollment figures are Graduate School of Education, 155; School of Design, 95; Divinity School, 87; School of Public Health, 70; Graduate School of Public Administration...