co-ordinate their architectural resources and capabilities. It is not believed that we shall make the greatest progress toward this individuality of a regional style in the design of the large or monumental building. The tendencies of our present architectural educational methods are so largely toward adaptatives of classical precedent in design, and appear so likely to continue in that direction, that we shall for some time to come, as we have for so long in the past, follow this precedent, adapting
in the experience of practical employment in large cities. And, since this war has overspread the world, in the case of many men whose day dreams of a trip abroad have been realized not in the pleasure journeys they had planned, but in the grim business of war, there has been added to the education already acquired a post-graduate course in the school of life.
When the young architect returns to his com
munity, straight from the firing line, and often
A TYPICAL ENGLISH COTTAGE (From The Cottage Homes of England)
it with more or less success to our needs for large buildings.
The well worn quotation, “Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools,” no longer holds good. In the days when men were born and raised in one community, and spent the whole of their lives there, the sameness of experience, the close and daily touch with common things, tended toward the “grading” of all men by the same standards. To-day the world has become restless. Both boys and girls go far afield in search of education, not only at school and college, but also
unfortunately from the hospitals in France, it will not be as a callow youth, fresh from college, cocksure of himself and of the future. He will have acquired, through months of the strictest discipline, all the poise and balance of a man many times his years. People will not question the ability of even a young man with such experience in life.
Here, then, will the young architect who essays to seek a livelihood in his home town, find opportunities, not only in matters strictly confined to the practice of his profession, but also in the wide field of citizenship. Pie may work for his ideals,
in the experience of practical employment in large cities. And, since this war has overspread the world, in the case of many men whose day dreams of a trip abroad have been realized not in the pleasure journeys they had planned, but in the grim business of war, there has been added to the education already acquired a post-graduate course in the school of life.
When the young architect returns to his com
munity, straight from the firing line, and often
A TYPICAL ENGLISH COTTAGE (From The Cottage Homes of England)
it with more or less success to our needs for large buildings.
The well worn quotation, “Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools,” no longer holds good. In the days when men were born and raised in one community, and spent the whole of their lives there, the sameness of experience, the close and daily touch with common things, tended toward the “grading” of all men by the same standards. To-day the world has become restless. Both boys and girls go far afield in search of education, not only at school and college, but also
unfortunately from the hospitals in France, it will not be as a callow youth, fresh from college, cocksure of himself and of the future. He will have acquired, through months of the strictest discipline, all the poise and balance of a man many times his years. People will not question the ability of even a young man with such experience in life.
Here, then, will the young architect who essays to seek a livelihood in his home town, find opportunities, not only in matters strictly confined to the practice of his profession, but also in the wide field of citizenship. Pie may work for his ideals,