. Architect and engineer. ngenuity in fitting the needs ofthe problem into a long string of Greektemples, Italian palaces or Mexican pueb-los, depending on the drawing in the style lottery. I explained that we did not feelthat that was the correct approach to anyarchitectural problem, much less to one THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 26 ? JUNE, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE CHICAGO EXPOSITION OF 1933 which should be the last word America hadto say in architecture. While it is true thatthe Columbian Exposition of 1893 haddone that very thing \^ath huge was not sufficient justification for re-p
. Architect and engineer. ngenuity in fitting the needs ofthe problem into a long string of Greektemples, Italian palaces or Mexican pueb-los, depending on the drawing in the style lottery. I explained that we did not feelthat that was the correct approach to anyarchitectural problem, much less to one THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 26 ? JUNE, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE CHICAGO EXPOSITION OF 1933 which should be the last word America hadto say in architecture. While it is true thatthe Columbian Exposition of 1893 haddone that very thing \^ath huge was not sufficient justification for re-peating the process. It seemed to us far better to approach ourproblem by a careful study of the new con- received a charter. It then consisted of afew huts and log shelters on the mud flatsof Lake Michigan. One hundred years hasshown a vast change. I doubt that in anyother time or place in the history of theworld so great and definite a change hasoccurred in that length of time. But it was definitely felt by the Exposi-. DAIRY BUILDING Edward H. Bennett and Arthur Brown, Architects ditions which we had to fulfill and plan thefair on the basis of those conditions—thenature of the exhibits, the contemplated at-tendance, the modern conditions of life, thenew structural trends—availing ourselvesof the extraordinary inventiveness of ourengineers and designers, than it was tosimply rehash the safe but old Exposition is to commemorate theone hundredth birthday of the City of Chi-cago. Just one hundred years ago the city tion authorities that there was more to sayto American people and the world at largethan merely accentuating Chicagos birth-day. One hundred years 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 T
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