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...vulgarity by the Atlantic Ocean. Luckily for the Nieuw Amsterdam, the characteristic tradition of Dutch art. which is that of lucid Jan Vermeer and not that of umbrageous Rembrandt, contains excellent precedent for marine design. The modern architecture of Holland, exemplified in the Euclidean beauties of J. J. P. Oud's houses, contains even more. Making safe concessions to the tourist's desire for a "luxury ship," the Nieuw Amsterdam's, designers managed to keep in the spirit of these traditions...
...class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...
...familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World's Fair; 2) photographs of a community of handsome houses built in a modern style outside Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 by European Architects van der Rohe, Gropius, Corbusier, Oud. "Tomorrow Looking Toward Yesterday?" queried the Museum's neat display...
...tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as J. J. P. Oud and Mies van der Rohe he was regarded as a master spirit. In 1932 Wright published his Autobiography, a book which combined magnificent self-revelation with the most stimulating discussion of architecture ever heard...
...Other early Internationalists: Germany's Miës van der Rohe, Holland's J. J. P. Oud, Switzerland's Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret...