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...much of his inspiration from rambling, old-style California ranch-house architecture, has been building houses in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 16 years. Hervey Parke Clark is a San Franciscan who took up architecture after a spell at Yale and with Manhattan's Hood & Fouilhoux. John Ekin Dinwiddie, a pupil of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, has very unconventional ideas. He sometimes builds houses that are not units at all, but chains of completely separated rooms, strung on intervening porticos and passageways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New California Architecture | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...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 as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring as the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Side by Side | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Longheaded, high-domed Wallace Kirkman Harrison and affable mustached J. (for Jacques) André Fouilhoux were among the architects who planned Rockefeller Center. They share a predilection for economy in architectural form. In evolving their Theme Centre for the Fair they made more than 1,000 sketches before they hit on the ultimate starkness of sphere and pyramidal form. Neither had ever been built before; both would certainly influence other World's Fair architecture to avoid superfluous dressing. And though neither the Sphere nor the symmetrical Trylon alone could serve as a direction-pointing landmark to guide wanderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ball & Spike | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...offices and broadcasting studios of NBC, RCA, RKO; a huge vaudeville theatre, a huge picture theatre, additional buildings for banks, shops, restaurants, offices. At John Reynard Todd's suggestion, three firms of architects were appointed to work with him: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Radio City | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Engineers and constructors of the Radio City are Todd, Robertson & Todd. Architects include the firms of Reinhard & Hoffmeister, Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux and Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray. No one in this congress of talent will admit being either the originator or the "executive architect'' of the project. It was learned last week, however, that it was Senior Partner John Raynard Todd. of Todd, Robertson & Todd who suggested the radio-city idea to Mr. Rockefeller and who persuaded Vice President David Sarnoff of the R. C. A. and President Hiram S. Brown of Radio-Keith Orpheum to join the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Radio City | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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