YOUNG ARCHITECTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 6

YOUNG ARCHITECTS

SOME LACK OF OPPORTUNITY IN NEW ZEALAND. OBSERVATIONS BY MR J. W. MAWSON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following statement is made by Mr J. W. Mawson, Town-Planning Adviser, with reference to a Press Association report of remarks made by him in a recent address at New Plymouth: —“The necessarily brief summary of my remarks unfortunately seems to have conveyed a misleading impression of what I actually said. As far as I am aware, there are no unemployed architects in New Zealand at the' present time. On the contrary, I believe that the demand for architectural assistants far exceeds the supply. The point I was trying to make was that, failing open competition among architects for the design of public buildings, young architects have very little opportunity of making known their knowledge and ability to the public, and are starting to practise on their own account and are faced with the alternative of becoming hacks in the office of some established firm or of going to England or some other country where such competitions are held. I remarked incidentally that several brilliant young New Zealand architects have already made a name and fortune for themselves in England by winning such competitions. ”