Evening star., 1934-05-12
ARCHITECTS MEET
HERE WEDNESDAY
Plans to Revive Building
Industry Will Be Dis.
CuSSed.

Problems of Architecture and the
New Order" will be attacked by repre-
sentatives of 81 chapters Of American
Institute of Architects at the sixty
sixth national convention of the in
stitute at the Mayfiower Hotel, May
16, II and 18.
Plans to revive architectural and
construction activity, involving public
works legislation, will be discussed at
joint sessions of the institute and the
Producers Council, representing man
ufacturers and producers Of building
materials and equipment, according to
of Washington, institute secretary.
Integration of the building industry
will be chief theme of discussion
The Institutes committee on Indus
trial Relations, of which William Orr
Ludlow of New York is chairman. will
recommend the formation of State
branches Of the Construction League
of the United States, of which both the
institute and the council are members
To Eliminate Abuses.
Elimination of unfair practices and
abuses that have been for so long
detrimental to the public as we'll as
to the building industry" will also be
urged. The codes covering archi-
lecture and construction provide op-
portunities to accomplish needed re-
forms, the committee declared in a
statement made public here.
The convention will open Wednes-
day morning with the annual address
of the president of the institute, Ernest
j. Russell of st. Louis. The reports of
the treasurer, Edwin Bergstrom of Los
Angeles, and of the board of directors,
presented by Secretary Baldwin, will
be received at the first session.
Charles D. Maginnis of Boston, first
vice president, will preside at Wednes-
day evenings session, which will be
held under the auspices of the Com
mite on Education, of which Charles
Butler of New York is chairman. The
craftsmanship and fine art medals will
be awarded
A joint luncheon meeting of the in
stitute and the Producers Council will
take place Thursday noon. Good Ar
chitecture, the Architect, the Produc-
ers" will be the topic of discussion. N.
Max Dunning of Chicago, chairman of
the Institutes Structural Service Com
mittee, will preside.
Thursday officers, directors, honor
ary and honorary corresponding men,
bers will be nominated. Thursday
evening the gold medal Of the institute
will be presented to Ragnar Ostberg of
Stockholm, Sweden. by President
Roosevelt at the White House.
Public Works Report.
The report of the institutes Com
mittee on Public Works will be made
Friday morning by Chairman Louis
La Beaume of St. Louis, and is expected
to lead to one of the liveliest discus
sions of the convention. Both arch1-
tects and producers will stress the ne
cessity of Federal appropriations to
stimulate construction. Until revival
occurs in the building industry, it is
held, recovery will lag. Employment OF
private architects on public buildings
is another problem which will be raised
by the Public Works report. E. G.
Kemper of Washington, executive Sec
retary of the institute, will report upon
q national survey of building needs
conducted by architects.
Stephen F.. Voorhees, Of New York,
chairman of the Construction Code
Authority and director OF the in
stitute, will report on the construc-
ton industry code, and William Stan
ley Parker of New York, chairman OF
the Architects Code Committee, will
discuss the architects code at the
Friday afternoon session, presided
over by Horace w. PeaSlee Of WASH
ington, second vice president Of the
institute.
Annual Dinner.
The concluding event will be the
annual dinner of the institute Friday
evening at 8 o'clock in the Mayhower
Hotel, at which awards CT fellowships
and honorary memberships will be
announced. Irving K. Pond OF Chi
cago, past president Of the institute,
will preside.
w. Morse of Detroit, president OF
the Producers Council, will make his
report at the opening session OF the
councils eleventh annual meeting
Wednesday morning, when Alexander
B. Trowbridge, president Of the Wash
inston Chapter of the A. I. A, will
welcome the council members. Re-
ports will also be made by H. H. Sher-
man of New York, executive secre-
tary of the council; A. B. Tibbets OF
New York, treasurer of the council;
William M. Crane, jr., of New York
and F. Leo Smith of Washington
technical secretary of the Structural
Service Committee of the A. I. A.
Wednesday the council will elect
officers. following which the Federal
public buildings program will be dis
cussed. F. P. Byington Of New York
chairman of the board of the council
will speak on construction league &C
tivities, and B. M. Petit of Bedford
Ind, will submit the report of the
councils committee on public build
ings, of which he is chairman. The
committee has gone on record as
favoring the building provisions OF
the La Follete bill allocating 81 ,500,-
100000 for the construction of build
ings.
]. G. Bebb of New York will pre-
side at the councils annual dinner
Wednesday evening Public Works
Legislation" and Home Renovizine
and Home Building Plans" will be
the subjects of addresses.
1.-THE leadership of the construction
industry has been centered in the
professional group-the architects ane
engineers-by common consent of al
the agencies" said Harvey A. Schwab
president of the Pittsburgh Chapter
in a statement given out at the Octa.
gon, national headquarters of the in
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