Cass Gilbert which now houses the George Gustav Heye Center. Gilbert served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1910 to 1916. In 1906 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1908. Gilbert served as President of the Academy from 1926 to 1933. Gilbert was a skyscraper pioneer; when designing the Woolworth Building he moved into unproven ground — though he certainly was aware of the ground-breaking work done by Chicago architects on skyscrapers and once discussed merging firms with the legendary Daniel Burnham — and his technique of
Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design staff. Despite the opposition, the sale went through in February the next year, though the building continued to be leased out to the university. Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, abbreviated as The Cass and nicknamed the "Aldgate Bauhaus", is an art school that forms part of the London Metropolitan University. It was founded in 2012 from the merger of London Guildhall University's Faculty of Art, Media and Design and North London University's Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design, though through predecessors of those two institutions, it