THE ARCHITECT'S IDEAL.
“In no foreign country has the competitive system for arehiticts attained such popularity or worked so well as it has in England. And it is shortly to be put to the supreme test. It is capable of giving us an acceptable design for the new home of the Royal Institute of British Architects . itself?” asks the “Architects Journal,’■ “What kind of a building do we want? The answer is generally given in platitudes—we want a good building, a ‘modern’ building, and so on. It is in the interpretation of the word ‘modern’ that acute differen:es of opinion arise. If to be modern means to break altogether with tradition, many of .us will oppose this kind of modernity; but if it means that we are to stand on top of the ages and add something new and tine to what is old and true in our architectural knowledge and experience, then we can all be ‘modernists.’ ”
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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158THE ARCHITECT'S IDEAL. Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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