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ARCHITECT'S WORK.

place in the community. Now that New Zealand is having a revival of building, public and private, many people in the Dominion may be interested in some remarks of Charles Marriott on the subject of "The Place of the Architect in the Community," published in a recent issue of the "Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects." , "The place of the architect is on the ground floor of the community," he states. "That is to say, so far from being regarded as the man who puts on the 'pretties,' the architect should be regarded as the person who decides the layout, plan, scale and proportions of the social fabric, and the relation of one of its parts to another, in so far as the social fabric is material and visible. "In deciding these questions he is guided by a sense of form and order, which has been properly trained. It is true that the architect also designs what are called 'elevations,' that is to say, the faces visible to the eye of the buildings which have arisen from the layout and plan, but if he is a good architect, he will treat them as arising from the circumstances, and not as something conceived beforehand and adapted to the plan as a sort of trimming in relief. So strongly do I feel this that I'V'ould almost say that if the architect were always called in to decide the layout, plan, scale and proportions of the social fabric, the designing of elevations might be left to amateurs. -Briefly, then, the place of the architect in the community in its material aspect is that of the divinity who shapes our ends." .

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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 7

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ARCHITECT'S WORK. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 7

ARCHITECT'S WORK. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 7