Architect and engineer . {. The Decorative Value of Screens THE possibilities of decorative value in screens are practically unlimited. Intone and living hue they may be of sufficient brilliance to give the neces-sary note of color or dash of sharp contrast to a whole room that mightotherwise be dull and uninteresting. As to material, they may be made ofalmost anything that has any quality, decorative or severely practical, tocommend it. The whole idea underlying the use of screens is that they should servesome practical purpose, or be frankly decorative in aim. Occasionally theyfulfill both f
Architect and engineer . {. The Decorative Value of Screens THE possibilities of decorative value in screens are practically unlimited. Intone and living hue they may be of sufficient brilliance to give the neces-sary note of color or dash of sharp contrast to a whole room that mightotherwise be dull and uninteresting. As to material, they may be made ofalmost anything that has any quality, decorative or severely practical, tocommend it. The whole idea underlying the use of screens is that they should servesome practical purpose, or be frankly decorative in aim. Occasionally theyfulfill both functions, and when they can be made to do this, so much thebetter. Of course it ought to go without saying that, even where the reason forusing a screen is purely practical, one should not fail to make it decorative also. 82 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. AEROPLANE VIEW OF APARTMENT HOUSE OF THE to Accommodate Families. An Apartment House Built Like A City Just as zie smiled as zve read the xvierd tale of Jules Iernes Tzvcniy ThousandLeagues Under the Sea, so we smile and question its plausability when we read in Scicnscand Invention the imaginative story of an apartment house of the future that is to consti-tute the home of 2,000 families—a self-contained house that is a veritable city in itselfztnth every conceivable accommodation for its tenants. The author offers his dream asa possible relief to our future housing congestion, and z^ho knozvs but that some day itZLill become a reality? By H. GERNSBACK THE housing problem which confronts the majority of people at this time,is not only a condition that prevails in the United States, but is universalall over the globe. No new construction to speak of has taken place whilethe population has increased anywhere from 10 to 20 per cent. The average human being prefer
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