Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least two of the large rubber companies have invested millions of dollars in providing homes for rubber workers; each house is of different architectural design, and built in parklike surroundings. Other workers are living in their own homes, or in rented houses in attractive neighborhoods...
...with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose in his designs...
...those who questioned whether DC-4 could, without radical changes in design, be equipped with a pressurized cabin like Boeing's Stratoliner, Douglas Engineer Arthur E. Raymond had the answer ready: "While it is possible to install a pressurized cabin on the DC-4, now being tested, there is nothing to be gained by doing so. ... All subsequent models will come out with that feature built in. Necessary additions ... do not change either the basic structure of the airplane or its interior arrangement...
...architect of his day, told his son it was easy to win them: "All you do is put in more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength...
...American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted on a barge. Said Winner Iversen, unflushed by his victory, "I don't think I could get a $30 a week architecture job here...