Our 50th Competition

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 4, 1 December 1916, Page 799

Our 50th Competition

We offer a prize of £ I 10 and a second prize of 10/6 for the Essay judged to be the best on “ The Quality of Fitness in Architecture.” Students are invited to write a short essay on the above subject. Among the various points to be considered are the suitability, or fitness, of different materials for the positions they are placed in, or the uses to which they are put. The fitness or otherwise, say, of designing a building for the centre of a city in the style of a country cottage; or a mansion in the Tudor style for a suburban section. The transgressions against this quality are so frequent and glaring, that there should be no trouble in critizing them, but on the other hand, competitors are required to point out how and where attention has been and can be paid to it. Length of Essay not to exceed 2000 words. Points will be given for original matter; practical application of the “quality,” literary style, punctuation, grammar and spelling. Students are advised to read “ Essentials in Architecture ” by John Belcher, A.R.A. (5/-). Mr. Basil B Hooper, A. 11. 1. 8. A., of Dunedin has kindly set this subject. Essays must be sent in under a nom-de-plume, addressed to Progress, 8 Parish St., Wellington, and marked clearly “Fiftieth Prize Competition ” on outside with a covering letter giving coinpetitors's name, and address of employer. Designs to be sent in by January 10th.