ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20391, 21 October 1929, Page 13

ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL.

EXHIBITION BY STUDENTS.

OPENING CEREMONY TO-DAY.

WIDE- RANGE OF WORK, A comprehensive exhibition Of the work of tho students of the Auckland University College School of Architecture will be opened in tho University College Hall at 2.30 afternoon by tho PostmasterGeneral, tho Hon. J. B. Donald. The president of tho college, £Mr Georgo Fowlds, will proside.

This is the first time that an exhibition of tho work of the studonts has been made a public one. Containing examples of all classes of drawings dono during the first four years of study, the exhibition should attract widespread interest during this week, when it will be open during college hours. The exhibits have been arranged undor the supervision of Professor C. R. Knight, of tho School of Architecture, so that tho progress of the student may be followed throughout tho whole period covered. In each section there is an explanatory note giving details of the problems attempted and their objects.

The drawings are not specially prepared but are representative of the work done by the students. The first-year section includes both line and coloured drawings in various styles of architecture, while more elaborato studies in design and construction represent tho second year's work. In tho third year actual problems arc dealt with and tho exhibits include detailed plans of cinema theatres, office buildings and shops, which lead to tho problems of an even more 'advanced nature worked out by the fourth-year students.

Throughout tho work emphasis is laid upon tho constructional side as well as upon design. It is the object of the school that its graduates should attain as great a standard of efficiency in the one as in the other. In one section there are sketch designs of a widcly.-varying nature. These aro dono by senior students in a limit of time.

Particular interest attaches to the entries for the brick manufacturers' annual scholarship of £ls, which this year has been won by Mr. W. J. Bedford, with Air. K. Land second. In this competition dosigns were sought for a group of suburban shops, a special provision being made that they should bo of a domestic character and in more than usual harmony with the suburban surroundings.

In another section'are displayed photographs of the original drawings of the finalists for the Tito Prize, which is open to students from schools of architecture throughout the Empire. This year the finalists are Messrs. A. C. Marshal], C. Sanderson and R. A. Widdicombe. The original drawings have been sent to England. Tho drawings of last year's finalists, Messrs. Sanderson and Marshall, are also being exhibited.