Evening star., 1939-08-12
District Architects
Pick Delegates 10
National Session
international Congress
Also to Convene Here
September "a

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Seven delegates have been elected
to represent the Washington Chap
ter at the list convention of the
American Institute of Architects to
be held here September "a to 30. The
Washington group also will partici-
pate in the 18th International Con-
gress of Architects. which. at the
invitation of President Roosevelt,
meets at the Nations Capital con-
currently with the institute.
Members of the delegation are ::
E. Philip Schreier of Schreier g.
Patterson, 1917 H street NV; AL
fred Kastner, Dupont circle; Louis
Justement, 1928 Connecticut avenue
NV: Horace w. Peaslee, Public Of
hce, Central Housing Committee, 907
Sixteenth street; Harry Francis
Cunningham, 1719 I street NV:
Robert Beresford, $40 Eighteenth
street NV; Theodore I. Coe, 1000
Cathedral avenue.
chapter and Mr.. Kastner is secre-
tary. Many members of the archi-
tectural profession in the District of
Columbia, as we'll as representatives
of the building industry, the Federal
services and educational institu-
tions will take part in the sessions
of the convention and the congress.
Middle Atlantic Report.
Architectural and building condi-
tions in the Middle Atlantic Dis
trict, which embraces the Institutes
chapters in the District of Colum-
bia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Del
aware, Maryland and West Virginia,
will be reported to directors of the
institute by Edmund R. Purves of
Philadelphia, regional director.
Numerous Washington architects
will present to the institute conven-
ton the annual reports of national
committees of which they are chair
men. They include: DR.. Leicester
B. Holland, Library of Congress, Ed
ward w. Dom, jr., 1920 K street
NV, Board of Examiners; N Max
Dunnin, Roger Smith Hotel, Com
mittee on Structural Service; Fran
els P. Sullivan. 8o8 Seventeenth
street NV. Committees on National
Capital and Inter-professi ,nal Rela-
tionS.
Clinton H. Cowgirl of Blacksburg
will head delegation of Virginia
architects to the assemblies. Mr.
Cowgirl is secretary of the Virginia
Chapter of the institute. Other Gel-
egates from the Virginia Chapter
include l.. P. Smithey. Roanoke;
Milton L. Grigg, Charlottesville, and
George Van Leeuwen, Norfolk.
Housing, City Planning Themes.
A report of conditions in the
South Atlantic district, comprising
the Institutes chapters in Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, AL
ALBANIA, Florida and Georgia, will be
presented by Merrill c. Lee of Rich
mond, regional director Mr. Lee
also will submit the report of the
Judiciary Committee, of which he
is chairman.
Housing and city planning will be
principal themes of the convention.
Other topics to be dealt with by the
delegates from the Institutes II
chapters in all parts of the country
include Federal public works, State
and municipal public works, indus
trial relations, foreign relations, al
lied arts, education, civic design,
registration laws, architectural serv-
ices and preservation of historic
buildings.
Charles D. Maginnis of Boston will
be the president of the congress in
its first meeting in the Western
Hemisphere. Mr. Maginnis is the
president of the institute. With the
approval of President Roosevelt,
Secretary of State Hull has appoint
ed eight delegates to represent the
United States officially
Maginnis Heads Delegation.
Mr.. Maginnis is chairman of the
delegation, other members of which
include Louis A. Simon, supervising
architect of the Treasury Depart
ment, and George Oakley Totten. jr.,
of 2633 Sixteenth street NV, Wash
ington. Arrangements for the con-
gress have been made by a COM
mittee on organization with head
quarters at the Octagon, 1741 New
York avenue NV.
The congress will bring forth
world opinion and experience on the
outstanding problems facing the
profession today" says an announce
ment of the committee. Rural and
city planning, a critical study of
contemporary architecture as judged
by standards of other countries and
opinion on the relationship to be
established between the architect
and his government are included on
the agenda"
Groups of American and foreign
architects plan to visit the New York
Worlds Fair, where Architects Day
will be observed on October 2, and
the Golden Gate Exposition, where
similar observance has been ar
ranged for October IL.