ARCHITECTURE A SCIENCE
» — "Architecture is now applied science under a mask of art," said Sir Josiah Stamp when opening the Exhibition of International Architecture at Manchester recently. "The much-needed reaction from the wedding cake architecture of the previous generation, under the influence of the principles of 'function' Or 'purpose,' has gone to its extreme in starkness and so-called realism," continued Sir Josiah, "and is now, I hope, on its way to a more reasonable compromise. One must sympathise with the architect of today. He can no longer exercise his art of design untrammelled by extraneous considerations. The modern utilitarian building is a bundle of engineering gadgets. When the architect has made a box which will accommodate ail these, then, and not before, he can begin to exercise his artistic faculty. As one architect puts it: 'A job is a desperate fight against ail manner of foes.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 7
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146ARCHITECTURE A SCIENCE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 7
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