EDUCATION IN THE ARTS

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16596, 12 September 1925, Page 18 (Supplement)

EDUCATION IN THE ARTS

FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE. Mr H. S. Goodhart (president) presided at the annual prize-giving and exhibition of work by students in the Architectural Association and School of Architecture, London. The chairman stated that in the past year the school had been very successful, and he trusted that in the coming year the number of students would be even larger. He mentioned that the two new scholarships of £IOOO each had been given by Sir Walter Lawrence and Mr F. G. Minter. Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, distributed the prizes, and in his subsequent address to the students he said he had only begun to realise during the last seven or eight months that there were millions of children for whom he was wholly, or partly, responsible in connection with educational institutions in all parts of the country. He congratulated the Association and the School of Architecture upon the success which had attended their work, and wished them gcod fortune. In addition, he wanted to say that the whole question of education in the arts was one which needed very careful consideration. The strength of the movement for education in the arts was increasing, especially in the department of architecture. During the last few years the architect had become a very important person. He had shared in the question of building and town planning, and was becoming more and more recognised as the chief partner in the solution of that problem. There was in the whole question of education in (lie aids, and in our present somewhat haphazard prevision for such education, ample food for very serious consideration. That consideration was being given to it, and he could only hope that he would receive advice, and impetus, and stimulation from those who wee competent to form an opinion on it. Responding to a vote of thanks which had been moved by Mr Maurice E. Webb, seconded by Mr F. C. Holland (representing the School Committee), Lord Eustace Percy remarked that he thought the lighter side of architecture needed developing, and he regarded it as a pity that the humorous side had been neglected.