ARCHITECTURE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 5

ARCHITECTURE

WHERE BEAUTY ARISES D you wish to realise the strength ol imagination and what it can accomplish, next time you listen to the liltii or ninth symphony of Beethoven, remember that he lealised that so dearly in bis imagination that be could write it down for our delight, though he never heard a note of it, being then stone deaf,” said Sir Raymond Unwin, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in a recent address. “This is but a supreme example of the working of a faculty which all possess in some measure, and which the designer, whether of music or dwellings, must specially develop, i always use this analogy," said Sir .Raymond Unwin late. Tn other matters we arc taught that if you put two and three together they have got to make live; they must not make more and they must not make loss. Well, in design, 1 always say that if you put three and two together, and you have got no more than five, you have made a- failure of it, because it is that harmony between the two, which is not there when they are apart but which is (here when they come together, which makes the design. That is where beauty arises. It may he in two colours wliieh are in harmony and enhance each •other's beauty. It may he in two or three tones of music which, played in one way, are beautiful, and, played in another way, are discordant ; and it is just the same with the forms of you: building and the relations. Believe metho secret is in the relation, but the relations must be between things that are there for some purpose, are there to satisfy sonic use, art- there to satisfy convenience. It' we realise that all these things are a- unify, and that you have got to satisfy the whole togetimr. then we shall keep on evolving now forms of beauty adapted to new materials, new methods of construction, and now needs of the people.’’