ARCHITECTURE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 63, 17 March 1922, Page 8

ARCHITECTURE

I* Til IDITOIt.

Sir, —Concerning the .talk on architecture I gave at the Rotary Club recently, and the curtailed report thereof appearing in the Evening Post on Tuesday, 14th March last, I understand the jocular remark made by me that "some of our buildings bore me stiff," misreported in your paper as "our buildings bore me stiff;" has been objected to in some quarters, and that a meaning has been read into my remark that I did not intend, and that it has been taken seriously as a direct gibe at the works of architepts in Wellington.

A word of explanation, I feel, is desirable, and I wish.to state tliat the trend of my address was to point out how important a thing architecture is to a.community, and how necessary it is that highly-trained registered architects should be employed on the design and construction of our important- and unimportant buildings. In New Zealand the value of sound architectural service in all its branches is ,not fully appreciated, and a great amount of work is not handled by architects. I am fully aware that Wellington, like other cities in New Zealand, possesses man" pieces of architecture of excellence, Mid my remark was intended to apply to those buildings which cannot be classed as architecture at all.—l am, etc.. J. F. MUNNINGS. 16th March.