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The ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
VOL. CXXIV WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1923 NUMBER 2429
Model, Lake View Avenue Facade
The ELKS MEMORIAL From Competition to Working Drawings
BY EGERTON SWARTWOUT, F. A. I. A.
I
THINK it is always of interest to the profession to see the development of a design from the competition stage to the working drawings. An actual comparison is generally difficult because of the different mediums in which the design is expressed. It happened that at the time of the League Exhibition last Winter it was not possible to exhibit the competition drawings of the Elks Memorial, as they were in use at the office of the Commission, and therefore from the workingdrawings I redrew the elevation at the scale of the competition elevation, one-eighth, and Mr. Alfred M. Grithens made a fine rendering of it. The plan I also redrew from the working drawings, at the same scale and in the same manner as the competition plan, and mounted it on the same stretcher.
These drawings are herewith reproduced and a comparison will, I hope, show an improvement. The revised design incorporated in the working drawings was made from a series of careful studies and models, and the last of these models is shown by photographs, which, though excellent as photographs, hardly do justice to the care and skill with which the model was made by Mr. Menconi, nor do they give quite the same idea of proportion that the model does when actually seen. I think this is the case in all photographs of models—the camera does not adjust itself to the scale of the model, and the photograph of a model never looks as the photograph of the actual building would look when taken from the same point of view.
The principal change, perhaps, is the width of
(Copyright, 1923, The Architectural & Building Press. Inc.)
The ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
VOL. CXXIV WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1923 NUMBER 2429
Model, Lake View Avenue Facade
The ELKS MEMORIAL From Competition to Working Drawings
BY EGERTON SWARTWOUT, F. A. I. A.
I
THINK it is always of interest to the profession to see the development of a design from the competition stage to the working drawings. An actual comparison is generally difficult because of the different mediums in which the design is expressed. It happened that at the time of the League Exhibition last Winter it was not possible to exhibit the competition drawings of the Elks Memorial, as they were in use at the office of the Commission, and therefore from the workingdrawings I redrew the elevation at the scale of the competition elevation, one-eighth, and Mr. Alfred M. Grithens made a fine rendering of it. The plan I also redrew from the working drawings, at the same scale and in the same manner as the competition plan, and mounted it on the same stretcher.
These drawings are herewith reproduced and a comparison will, I hope, show an improvement. The revised design incorporated in the working drawings was made from a series of careful studies and models, and the last of these models is shown by photographs, which, though excellent as photographs, hardly do justice to the care and skill with which the model was made by Mr. Menconi, nor do they give quite the same idea of proportion that the model does when actually seen. I think this is the case in all photographs of models—the camera does not adjust itself to the scale of the model, and the photograph of a model never looks as the photograph of the actual building would look when taken from the same point of view.
The principal change, perhaps, is the width of
(Copyright, 1923, The Architectural & Building Press. Inc.)