PURSUIT OF IDEAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23487, 26 October 1939, Page 8

PURSUIT OF IDEAL

• NEED FOR ARCHITECTS ADDRESS TO STUDENTS The pursuit of the ideal was described by the president of the Auckland Society of Arts, Mr. It. 0. Gross, as the most valuable feature of the course of the Auckland University College • School of Architecture, when lie onened the annual exhibition of students' work in the College Hall yesterday afternoon. He emphasised the need for architects to lift the matter of buildabove craft and make it an art. Mr. Gross' said an architect if he was to succeed must satisfy the practical demands - for lloor space, light and convenient access, but he would fail in his job if his filial design, after satisfying material' requirements, remained merely a building. It should be, to justify the employment of an architect, a work of art. Therefore it was to these formative vears in the schools that the habit of tackling each and every problem set was 0110 of tremendous importance. The president, of the college, Mr. >\. H. Cocker, who presided, said the School of Architecture was a civic institution and it was right that citizens should have the opportunity of seeing the work that had been done. By these exhibitions tlio school could educate public taste. . Professor C. It. Knight reviewed the work of the school, which ho said had had the most successful year of its career. There had been over 100 enrolments for the various courses.