Notes on Modern Architecture.

Focuses on the deterioration in the burgeoning art of architecture in the United States with emphasis on examples cited from various buildings. Accentuation of the vertical lines: bands of brown and black brick connecting the windows, alternating with bands of white brick, for the solid wall in the case of the Daily News Building in New York; Description of Boston, Massachusetts that will soon have the distinction of possessing two modern stations, for though the exterior of the South Station remains unchanged, the old smoke hall-- or train shed--has been supplanted by covered platforms which permit the smoke to escape and shelter only the passengers; Examination of the Bonwit Teller Building that reveals that modern architecture is no more dependent upon the skyscraper for its success than it is dependent on the subway; Footsteps left by the Squibb building in the sand of modernism in terms of color; Definition of modernism in the context of culture.