. Architect and engineer. s of progress inscience, invention, engineering skill and arthad taken place and represented a periodin history in which advances in this fieldhad possibly out-distanced advances in allthe previous recorded history of man. Itwas felt that the people should be madeconscious of this progress and have the THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER <27 ^ JUNE. NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE A CENTURY OF PROGRESS matter presented to them in a form withsufficient definiteness and under circum-stances where they could appreciate its im-portance and learn more of the age in whichthey live and the
. Architect and engineer. s of progress inscience, invention, engineering skill and arthad taken place and represented a periodin history in which advances in this fieldhad possibly out-distanced advances in allthe previous recorded history of man. Itwas felt that the people should be madeconscious of this progress and have the THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER <27 ^ JUNE. NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE A CENTURY OF PROGRESS matter presented to them in a form withsufficient definiteness and under circum-stances where they could appreciate its im-portance and learn more of the age in whichthey live and the quality of leadershipwhich had made that condition possible. Instead of turning the eyes of Americaupon Europe, we felt that the eyes of accepted today than they were forty yearsago. The Columbian presentedan idea which, while not new in itself, wasdecidedly new^ in America. A Century of Progress presents ideas inarchitecture and plan arrangement whichare not only new in America but new in theworld as a GENERAL EXHIBITS GROUPHarvey Wiley Corbett. Architect Europe should be turned upon America,that our contribution, if we had any tomake, should be one looking into the futureand pointing out thereby the direction inwhich we as a nation are moving. This wasnot an easy thing to attempt. Because ofmodern science and invention we wereforced to work without precedent. Werealized that beauty is so largely a matterof association of ideas that setting up newstandards of forms, detail and color wouldbe a highly risky undertaking. Art is an ever-changing thing, but therate of change has increased in proportionto the speeding-up of all other forms ofactivity, and iiew ideas are more readilv What then were some of the newer prob-lems which this fair had to meet? It con-templated attendance of a million people aday. and that meant a million people nolonger accustomed to w^alking as our fath-ers and mothers had been. The extensiveuse of automobiles, moving stairs, elevators
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