DOI issue:
Nr. 343 (December 1925)
DOI article:Harrington, John Walker: The new fenestrated architecture
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19986#0186
mceRHACionAL
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
one eighty-six
DECEMBER 1925
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
one eighty-six
DECEMBER 1925