UGLINESS IN ARCHITECTURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1927, Page 4

UGLINESS IN ARCHITECTURE.

•• He who pays the piper may call the tune: Few architects are given a free hand to plan according to their own mood. Therefore you may sa\ that the owner of Lhe ugly bouse was at least as guilty as the architect whom lie clio.so, whose work pleased him. There are private men whose taste in Lhe matter of building is as had or worse, than any architect s taste. So I am not as sure as tihe gentleman who wrote the letter to tho editor that good architecture would flourish if houses were plainly signed with tile name of their planner. A hat is ugliness in architecture? I have hut one answer lo that question : I can answer ft plainly. Ugliness is the style in building which does not please me. Come out into the nearest street, and I will point out to you the ugly houses. Yet these which are certainly ugly maybe pleasing in your sight. 1! they bore the architect’s name on them you might he persuaded to take a note of it, as the name of a man you would employ if you should build a house for yourself.”— ‘‘ 'I he Londoner. in the " Evening News.”