MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Sir--I was interested to read your article (January 18) on the BBC programme British Masterpieces, especially with regard to the churches of Wren. It is time contemporary architects realised their duty to the community. Where in New Zealand can we find beautiful
churches such as Wren built? Architects are abandoning our heritage from Greece, Rome, and other European countries, in favour of a bare, uninteresting facade with no trace of the beautiful motives of decoration, as used in Renaissance architecture, What | beauty is there in modern office’ buildings and houses, with their severe lines and lack of decoration? Surely architects are becoming subsidiary to, engineers when they ‘lightly throw aside all that has been handed: down to them: An engineer is quite capable of designing a reinforced concrete or steel structure. A builder can build a house without the help of an architect. Any person can plan a house, to suit his personal requirements. An architect’s job is to decorate and apply his classical education to make a thine of beauty.
WREN
(Wellington)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 5
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175MODERN ARCHITECTURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 5
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