For Home-Builders
be ys ~ a bee Leng ® iA tT " ARCHITECTURE for the People" from 4YA, was the first of a series of talks on the subject of that house we all intend to build some day, These talks are to be recommended to any listeners interested in housing, general and particular, Nowadays that means all of us. Some of us live in old and ugly houses which are too good to pull down and re-build, even if we had the means. to do so; a few of us live in almost perfect homes; many of us live in other people’s houses, and would welcome anything with a roof, provided that it be= longed to us. But the housing shortage is no excuse for building ugly, inconvenient, or unnecessarily costly homes, when it is just as easy, by a little planning, to have homes that are worth looking at inside and out, easy for the housewife to manage, and as cheap as is consistent ne good quality. In the first of these talks, Mr. Barry Martin went into the primary considerations of the section, the foundations, the planning of floor space, and so on. Apart from practical advice, he suggested the consultation of an architect with regard to the appearance of the home — and superfluous as this advice ought to be,
RADIO VIEWSREEL (Cont'd,)
it is apparently needed. Judging at least by the appearance of the average New Zealand home, the most popular architect in this country has usually been Mr. Rafferty! as
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 9
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252For Home-Builders New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 9
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