The Auckland Architectural Students’ Association

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 1, 1 September 1915, Page 417

The Auckland Architectural Students’ Association

SOME REMARKABLY GOOD WORK

We have pleasure in publishing in this number a selection of the designs made during the current session by the members of the Auckland Architectural Students’ Association. In doing so we wish to. congratulate the Association on the very excellent work which has been done. We have on several occasions published designs by members

to see the type of design aimed at. This is as it should be as the rendering and the design act and re-act one on the other. We feel sure that the work which the Association is doing will make itself evident in the future in the architecture of this country and we heartily recommend the example of the Auckland Association to the students in the other important

Back Row—C. Towle, N. Garlick, G. F. Peek, I. Hall, E. Phillips, E..T. Marr, B. B. Owen, E. Small, H. Hyland,'. E. Reidy, G. E. Downer, ’ A. B. Miller, P. C. Garrett, E. LePetit, H. Mealand 1 Front Row— L. Massey (Sec. 1914), G. O. Owen, Mr. Gammer (Pres. 1914), Mr. Bamford (Pres. 1915), Mr. Paterson (Vice-Pres. 1915), . i A. Morgan (Sec 1915) " ! Absent Farrell, G. Hunt, V. Maxwell, E. Wiseman, L. Skipworth, F. Henderson Bartlett, Photo•

of the Association and we know that these have been very favourably commented upon by those who are competent to judge of these things. It is very evident that the Association is formed on right lines and that the visiting architects to the design classes are well qualified to afford the proper guidance to beginners in the Art of Design. We are glad to note, too that the aim of the members is to produce good design. well drawn, and it is as refreshing to see the good draughtsmanship as it is

centres. We have always - considered that the' New Zealand Institute of Architects ought to have classes and other means of helping the architectural students here but we have never heard of any sustained effort being made by that body for benefitting the budding architects. Indeed we are forced to the conclusion that the Institute exists for. the benefit of Architects rather than Architecture. One Association such as the Auckland Students have formed will accomplish more for Architecture than all the Architects Bills in the

world and now that the Institute has obtained the necessary authority to say who shall and who shall not be an architect, it is only reasonable to expect that it should display the same activity and interest in undertaking its clear duty to the students which it manifested in engineering the Architects' Bill. Nevertheless, we would advise the students in the other centres not

to wait for the Institute but to form associations on the lines of the Auckland one and the fact that the effort is made by the students themselves will have its own and peculiar value. We are glad to think that we, through the medium of this magazine, have done what we could for the architectural students' by means of a series of competitions extending over a number of years. We cannot for a moment claim that such.

competitions can have nearly the same value as a properly conducted class of design but we are assured that they have done good. Some very creditable work has been done and, which is of infinitely greater value and. which is, moreover, the object aimed at in arranging these competitions, the criticisms have been of real assistance to the students.

We shall in these columns always be glad to support any mo\ement in the direction -of providing educational facilities for architectural students and would welcome the formation of other associations and publish examples of their work. We extend our cordial good wishes to the members of the Auckland Association and to the visiting Architects for a continuance of the success which has

so far marked their efforts. We should like to point out to the students that for the purposes of satisfactory reproduction the drawings should be finished in clear lines and strong tones. We quite understand that the drawings themselves may lose something of their charm when so treated, but indistinct reproductions are irritating and lose much of their value.

Chairman of the Board a sum to cover all deposits required to accompany tenders, and also to provide, except in special cases, for a general bond in the sum of £I,OOO for the due fulfilment of all contracts entered into with a tenderer. The regulations have been amended in this respect, and tenderers are now taking advantage thereof.