Ho for Chaos!
HE discussion on New Zealand architecture by a group of architectural students. (2YA,° May 31), should have had the effect of puncturing my proverbial New Zealand complacency and making me aware of the mote in New
Zealand building (Broadcasting House is a notable example). Instead it made me conscious of the fact that there are penalties as well as profits in the architectural profession, since the chaotic skyline of the Wellington shop-tops and the whimsical disorder of her dormitory suburbs can cause acute professional pain, whereas the bargain-happy shopper and the work-weary commuter know no such pang. This was perhaps the most earnest discussion I have heard in the ‘series, and quite the most unanimous, in fact, so united were the participants that on several occasions one was able to finish another’s sentence for him (and did). "Absolutely ghastly" was a well-aired comment, and not even Alice’s Queen of Hearts was so sweeping in her denunciations. Their conclusions: (1) That the Public Must Be Educated, (2) That the Profession must set standards of design since these do not exist in New Zealand now. My reflectionthat it takes a long time to educate the public, and that meanwhile shop‘windows, if not skylines, will continue inviting and dormitory suburbs sleepconducive
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 11
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211Ho for Chaos! New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 11
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