Cass Gilbert cladding a steel frame became the model for decades. Modernists embraced his work: John Marin painted it several times; even Frank Lloyd Wright praised the lines of the building, though he decried the ornamentation. Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas at Austin, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, railroad stations (including the New Haven Union Station, 1920), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.. His reputation
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