The Roofs Over Our Heads

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 14

The Roofs Over Our Heads

-’T'HE architect’s claim that his is the oldest profession is based (so the story goes) on the argument that it was -a work of architecture to bring order out of chaos-and it was, of course, a politician present who challenged the claim by interjecting pointedly: "And | who created chaos?" F. E. Greenish, a Wellington architect, who will be heard from 2YC at 8.15 p.m. on . Thursday, May 28, in the first of a series of talks | on The Progress of Architecture, doesn’t | claim that his is the oldest profession, | but he does point out that architecture and the architect have their roots in ages long before recorded history-that it is_ possible that even before he began to. clothe himself man sought or made shelter for himself and his family. Mr. Greenish, who takes as his subject the | history of architecture to the end of the | 18th Century, is followed by M. B. Patience, another Wellington architect, with a talk on the 19th and 20th Cen- ; : : ; turies. The third talk, about architecture in New Zealand, is by F. Gordon Wilson, the Government Architect; Peter Middle- | ton, who is studio master at the School

of Architecture, Auckland University College, will be heard discussing the architect and the home; and Mary Lysaght ends the series by saying something about landscape architecture-a field in which she has had much experience.