Rita Boutros
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026
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of intelligent thought, instead of being relegated to the limbo of technical mysteries.
That is not to say that the layman is wise to fill his mind with the details of construction or attempt to master what is the absorbing study of an architect's lifetime.
There are, however, certain qualities of architecture which lie open to the cultivated eye.
Mass, proportion, scale, and texture, and these become visible with observation to anyone with artistic perceptions.
The time has come when educated people have shaken off the shackles of the speculative builder and have turned their backs on the desirable villa residents.
Fifty years ago the architects who were doing honorable service in house building were a small but brilliant band.
One need name only the giants Philip Webb, Norman Shaw, Eden Nesfield, and George Devy.
Today there are scores of young and brilliant men who have carried the pioneer work of their elders to its natural conclusion and gone far to reestablish English architecture on a logical and national basis.
Much remains to be done, especially in the larger field of town planning and civic architecture, where this country lags behind the continent and America.
But the driving power must come from an enlightened public opinion.
The present need seems therefore to spread as widely as may be the knowledge of the achievement of today.
To the readers of this book who are about to build it may not be impertinent to offer a few words of advice.
Let it be said at once that the momentous question of success or failure rests wholly upon the wise choice of an architect.
The builder who works to his designs is an important factor, and unless he is an honest and experienced man, the architect will have trouble in getting sound work.
The powers conferred on him by the terms of the ordinary contract
And specification enable him, however, to insist on good materials and workmanship, even in the unhappy event of a shirking and incompetent builder securing the work in competition.
In this, as in all else, the client will be wise to accept the advice of his architect and his
and reject a very low tender in favour of a higher one if the lowest offer does not come from a builder of repute.
Clients subject themselves to no small embarrassment and loss if they fail to summon to their counsels the architect of their choice immediately they have decided to build.
His experience is of the greatest value, not only in the design of the house itself, but in the choice of a site.
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