The Flasher of the Arts

33xQuoted in Alden Whitman, Mies van der Rohe obituary, New York Times, August, 19, 1969; Also, Philip C. Johnson, Mies van der Rohe (New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1947). Cram is not well remembered today, but he was probably the best-known American architect of the first third of the twentieth century—and, in 1926, the first architect to grace the cover of Time.66xA rare architectural monograph on the work of Cram is Ethan Anthony’s The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2007). Like most architects, Cram followed the long-standing principle of architectural propriety: A building should suit its purpose not only in terms of functionality but also in terms o

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