“ARCHITECTURE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 4

“ARCHITECTURE”

ADDRESS AT PEN WOMEN'S CLUB Last evening Mrs. A. J. Brown gave an address to the art section of the League of Pcnwomen on the subject of “Art and Architecture.” The speaker said that since the Victorian age a misconception had sprung up concerning the architect’s work. In those days he was not considered primarily as an artist, whereas really, primary mental conception of the completed building ivas the principal thing. Architects, as a matter of fact, were looked upon more as building surveyors than as creative artists. Architecture, said Mr. Brown, could reasonably claim to be the mother of all the arts, for without it painting and sculpture could not have progressed. It was one of the purest of the arts, because, while painting and sculpture were mainly representative and sometimes imitative, the highest form of architecture was purely monumental or symbolic. After his address Mr. Brown answered many questions on the subject and supper was served.