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Art and Ethics Meet in the Apothegm
Those Who Can, Ought
Obligation is measured by opportunity and ability. Ability, the Architects throughout the United States, already possess. Opportunity is now offered them in the competition for a Small Face Brick House, announced in the
August number of the Architectural Forum, to do a real service to the people of our country, much to their own and the people’s advantage.
The Architect performs the double function of builder and artist. He at once serves the purpose of substantial and beautiful construction. His work involves both the mechanical and the fine arts.
And in furthering the current competition for a Small House, of which fully a half million are needed in our country today, he has the rare opportunity, in planning the Face Brick house, of combining both functions of his art, the practicality of enduring value and the attractiveness of simple beauty. He builds of sound and lasting materials (firmitas) in a way to meet the practical uses and comforts of the home (utilitas), and he expresses these material values in the loveliness (venustas) of outward artistic form.
The results of the competition now open may well mean:
* A stimulus to home owning and a consequent encouragement to a higher and more contented citizenship.
*A better type of architecture throughout the country in the smaller places, and a consequent general enhancement of artistic appreciation.
*A pervasive and beneficial influence upon the whole community
er work is done.
Art and Ethics Meet in the Apothegm
Those Who Can, Ought
Obligation is measured by opportunity and ability. Ability, the Architects throughout the United States, already possess. Opportunity is now offered them in the competition for a Small Face Brick House, announced in the
August number of the Architectural Forum, to do a real service to the people of our country, much to their own and the people’s advantage.
The Architect performs the double function of builder and artist. He at once serves the purpose of substantial and beautiful construction. His work involves both the mechanical and the fine arts.
And in furthering the current competition for a Small House, of which fully a half million are needed in our country today, he has the rare opportunity, in planning the Face Brick house, of combining both functions of his art, the practicality of enduring value and the attractiveness of simple beauty. He builds of sound and lasting materials (firmitas) in a way to meet the practical uses and comforts of the home (utilitas), and he expresses these material values in the loveliness (venustas) of outward artistic form.
The results of the competition now open may well mean:
* A stimulus to home owning and a consequent encouragement to a higher and more contented citizenship.
*A better type of architecture throughout the country in the smaller places, and a consequent general enhancement of artistic appreciation.
*A pervasive and beneficial influence upon the whole community
er work is done.