Art: Architects to Russia

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There is nothing novel in Russian importation of alien architects: a nation without indigenous architecture, most of its monuments in the past have been successively the work of Byzantines, Italians, Frenchmen imported wholesale by such ambitious rulers as Peter I and Catherine the Great. But presently, in Russia, Moritz Kahn with 25 U. S. assistants will organize a Soviet designing bureau of some 4,500 architects and engineers. This bureau will be directed by B. E. Barsky, President of the Soviet Building Commission.

*Likewise, the City Planning Commission of Philadelphia last week announced that famed French landscape Architect Jacques Greber had been retained to help beautify Philadelphia.

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