Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-26
World Architects
To Meet in Americas
Largest Assembly
Two Big Professional
Organizations Convene
Here September "a

Here September "a
The largest number of architects
ever assembled in this country will
convene in Washington on Septem-
Der "a for the list convention of the
American Institute of Architects
and the 18th International Congress
of Architects. The institute is ex-
pected to attract delegates repre-
senting $4,000 American architects.
The international congress, the first
held in the Western Hemisphere.
will bring architects from many
countries. 1t is meeting here at the
invitation of Congress and President
Roosevelt.
The sessions of both organizations
will be held concurrently for one
week. Housing experts, city plan
ners and authorities in allied fields
will participate in the proceedings of
the Congress and the convention.
World problems of planning, popula-
ton, contemporary architecture,
government participation in build
ing and the function of public au-
thority in determining the artistic
worth of proposed structures will
feature the agenda of the congress.
according to an announcement by
the committee on organization
named by Secretary of State Cordell
Hull.
Five Official Languages.
The congress will have five official
anguages-English, French, Ger
man, Italian and Spanish. Papers
may be submitted, and discussions
may be conducted in any one of
these tongues. The Government, the
American Institute of Architects
and the American section of the
Comite Permanent International DIES
Architectes will act as hosts.
Following day of committee
meetings and other events. including
reception at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art. the Congress formally will
open at noon on September IS, in
the auditorium of the Labor Depart
ment Building, with an address of
welcome by Charles D. Maginnis of
Boston, who has been elected presi-
dent of the Congress. Monday eve
ming there will be an official recep-
ton by the Government at the Pan
American Union building and in the
adjacent gardens. with members of
the United States Congress and of
the diplomatic corps and other dig
nitaries present.
Emile Maigrot, Paris, will preside
at the first discussion of the opening
session of the Congress on Tuesday,
September 26, at $50 am. Plan
ming and Development of Rural Dis
tricts" will be the theme. The sec
rotary will be Harvey Wiley Corbett
of New York City, and the reporter
general will be Gilmore D. Clarke
of White Plains, N. Y.
Second Discussion.
Prof. Albert Gala Bini of the
Ecole Superieure d'Architecture,
Naples, Italy, will be president at
the second discussion on Tuesday
morning, at which the theme will be
THE Relation Between Population
Density and Built-Up Area" John
A. Holabird of Chicago will be Sec
rotary and Frederick Bigger of
Pittsburgh. reporter general
THE Architects Copyright" will
be the theme of the second session
on September Is at 2:3O pm. David
j. Wilmer of Los Angeles will be
secretary and Frederick v. Murphy
Of Washington, reporter general.
The president of this session has not
yet been chosen.
w. Curtis Greene, England. will
be president of the third session on
Wednesday morning, September 81,
when the theme will be "Contempo-
rary Architecture Compared to the
Architecture of the Past" William
A. Delano of New York will be Sec
rotary, and George Howe of Phila-
delphia, reporter general.
Comparison of the Remuneration
Received by Architects in the Diff
ferent Countries" will be the theme
of the fourth session on Wednesday
afternoon. j. Otis Post of New York
will be secretary and John P. B.
Sinkler of Philadelphia, reporter
general. The president of this SEES
sion is yet unnamed.
Fair Lighting To Be Discussed.
A special session of the congress
at $50 pm. on Wednesday will be
devoted to lectures on Light and
Architecture" illustrated by motion
pictures in color. Leading architects
will explain the use of light at the
New York Worlds Fair and the
Golden Gate International EXPOSE
ton.
Two themes will be discussed at
the fifth session on Thursday morn
ing, September %. One is THE
Consequence of the Participation by
Government, Whether Federal or
Local. and/or by Private Enterprise,
in the Preparation of Plans and the
Carrying Out of Building Opera
tons" The other is Should Public
Authority Be Clothed With Power to
Reject Plans as Artistically Unsatis-
factory Rather Than as at Present
for Purely Technical Reasons
Only?".
DR.. FREDERICK E. Mariscal, Mexico
City, will preside at the discussion of
the first theme. with Arthur Brown,
Jr., of San Francisco. as secretary