Word: draftsman
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...pertaining to the profession of architecture, but leave out one fundamental in failing to teach a man how to be an architect. All of the fundamentals which determine the real character of a building are discussed and determined in the private office of the head of the firm. The draftsman, let alone the architectural student, is entirely unaware of what is going on. Mr. Lench is attempting in his course to take the student into the private office. He will use a case system and show what actually goes on between the architect and his client, his promoter, his engineer...
...father-a pattern maker for a plumbing manufacturer-to build a coach instead of looking for work. He set up a workshop in the family's basement. The other senior winner was a boy named Albert Fischer from Waukegan Ill. He was let out of his draftsman's job, spent 1,200 hours on his coach...
...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...
...which each essays to predict the future of the metropolis. Le Corbusier, a Swiss whose real name is Charles Edouard Jeanneret, famed in Paris for his revolutionary ideas and dicta on city-planning, tells didactically and illustrates exhaustively his version of the future. Hugh Ferriss, romantic U. S. draftsman of modernistic architectural elevations in black and white, illustrates his predictions with drawings which he calls "not entirely random shots in the dark...
...charges in the thick-walled, century-old cellblock (TIME, Nov. 18). From an outside "wire" (tipoff) he learned that Ryan and three others in old Sing Sing were concocting a plot. Slyly he watched them. Suddenly the four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs of implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said...