controlled and of limited outward or “service” effectiveness; as to whether they are associated with schools of design, serving actually as laboratories and drawing rooms in the training of craftsmen and of designers for the industrial art fields; or possibly are attached to universities, closely related to a department of art for which they offer the demonstration material and in other ways collaborate in the training of historians of art, critics, teachers or curators.
These different types of work, needless to say, require different architectural approaches in order that a functional plan may result. A comparison of, let us say, the Detroit Institute of Arts with the Fogg Museum at Harvard would be most illuminating in this respect. But add to the possibilities of such a study two other important elements (neither appearing in these two buildings), namely, that of a difficult site and that of relating new construction to existing buildings, and we have as pretty a problem in plan and design as any practiced hand might like to attack. And with the growth in importance of museums as effective factors in the educational
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