ESSAYS BY THE WAY V. — Suburban Architecture
By “Scrutator. ”
At a recent dinner of the Architecture Club Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, in a speech which perhaps erred on the side of excessive caution, gave architects a good deal of very sound advice. The tenor of his address on “The Improvement of Suburban Architecture” was, “Go easy. ”
Mr. Chamberlain seemed to think that the local authorities were the right people to exercise any control that might be imposed, and that architects were the proper people to educate, help and stimulate the aforesaid local authorities. Too much stimulation might easily lead to intimidation, and any architect who is going to successfully help the local Council will want rather more than the ordinary amount of tact. Indeed, the whole question of the advisability
or inadvisability of control over the design of our buildings is one upon which architects are by no means all agreed.
The ‘‘Modernists’’ of the extreme left might easily
be made anxious if they thought that their future was to be decided by the Traditionalists of the extreme right. The very fresh and original design for the village departmental store in the latest phase of coloured concrete, on which Mr. Everbright, the distinguished young architect — he whom the evening papers have hailed in chatty paragraphs as “the lad who delivers the goods” — had expended so much careful thought and thoughtful care, might be returned to him with the Advisory Committee’s request to make it a little more Jacobean! Or COMPETITION FOR THE DECORATIONS FOR CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL, FOR
THE VISIT OF THE KING AND QUEEN.
Sketch Design by Mr. Laurence Wright, Third-year Student of the Liverpool School of
Architecture.
By “Scrutator. ”
At a recent dinner of the Architecture Club Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, in a speech which perhaps erred on the side of excessive caution, gave architects a good deal of very sound advice. The tenor of his address on “The Improvement of Suburban Architecture” was, “Go easy. ”
Mr. Chamberlain seemed to think that the local authorities were the right people to exercise any control that might be imposed, and that architects were the proper people to educate, help and stimulate the aforesaid local authorities. Too much stimulation might easily lead to intimidation, and any architect who is going to successfully help the local Council will want rather more than the ordinary amount of tact. Indeed, the whole question of the advisability
or inadvisability of control over the design of our buildings is one upon which architects are by no means all agreed.
The ‘‘Modernists’’ of the extreme left might easily
be made anxious if they thought that their future was to be decided by the Traditionalists of the extreme right. The very fresh and original design for the village departmental store in the latest phase of coloured concrete, on which Mr. Everbright, the distinguished young architect — he whom the evening papers have hailed in chatty paragraphs as “the lad who delivers the goods” — had expended so much careful thought and thoughtful care, might be returned to him with the Advisory Committee’s request to make it a little more Jacobean! Or COMPETITION FOR THE DECORATIONS FOR CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL, FOR
THE VISIT OF THE KING AND QUEEN.
Sketch Design by Mr. Laurence Wright, Third-year Student of the Liverpool School of
Architecture.