International studio (82.1925)

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The NeW Fenestrated "Architecture

Open-faced architec- Our buildings are being COn- every viewpoint of utility,

ture expresses a de- structed With facades of and sureIy its aesthetic

sire of some of the >s ^ ^ framework, qualities cannot be ignored.

American people to live and ,• / / •/ # What then, is archi-

, vt- ti . creating a novel architecture . , , n . r

work within walls composed & tecturer One cannot hold
mostly of glass. Its shining rJolxn VC^. HcLtTLliatoFL sufficient the desiccated def-

examples appear in all our inition that it is merely the

principal cities, from classic Boston to exotic San "Artistic expression of structure." Such is not

Francisco. It defies certain conventions made modern architecture, certainly, and neither does

and provided, and it, therefore, cannot afford to it cover the Golden Age of Pericles. Art is that

throw many stones. Vitruvius would have con- skill which fits materials to purposes. The primal

sidered it vitreous villainy; Ruskin could not have aim of architecture, art of arts, is utility. Its

seen its merits, probably, with all his seven lamps main object even now is to provide shelters in

of architecture, and yet it has found for itself which men may be free from sun and storm, from

such a place that it is worthy of acceptation from the extremes of heat and cold, while they eat and

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DECEMBER 1925