. American architecture . aremany things by living architects, whom I cannot men-tion because they are living, which exhibit these samemerits. There is one other example that I would liketo mention here, because many of you know his work;I mean the late John Wellborn Root, of Chicago. Ishouldnt mention him either if he hadnt, unfortunately,gone from us. Mr. Roots buildings exhibit the sametrue sincerity—the knowledge of the material with whichhe had to do, the fulfilment of the purpose which hehad to perform. I dont know any greater loss thatcould have happened to the architecture of this coun
. American architecture . aremany things by living architects, whom I cannot men-tion because they are living, which exhibit these samemerits. There is one other example that I would liketo mention here, because many of you know his work;I mean the late John Wellborn Root, of Chicago. Ishouldnt mention him either if he hadnt, unfortunately,gone from us. Mr. Roots buildings exhibit the sametrue sincerity—the knowledge of the material with whichhe had to do, the fulfilment of the purpose which hehad to perform. I dont know any greater loss thatcould have happened to the architecture of this coun-try and to the architecture of the future than that mandying before his prime. These are stimulating andfruitful examples to the architects of the present timeto bring their art more into alliance, more into union,more into identity, with the art of building; and it is bythese means, gentlemen, and by these means only, thatwe can ever gain a living, a progressive, a real archi-tecture—the architecture of the CONCERNING QUE EN ANNE ^^ HE new departure is an apt namei-^-<, £qj. ^vhat some of its conductors de-scribe as the new school in archi-tecture and decoration. It has still,after nearly ten years of almost com-plete sway among the young archi-tects of England and of the UnitedStates, all the signs of a departure —we might say of a hurried departure—and gives no hint of an arrival, or evenIt is, in fact, a general breaking-up in building, as the dispersion of Babel was in speech,and we can only and somewhat desperately hope thatthe utterances of every man upon whom a dialect hassuddenly fallen may at least be intelligible to a movement so exclusively centrifugal that itassumes rather the character of an explosion than of anevolution, not much achievement can be looked for. Infact, the movement has not, thus far, either in Eng-land or in the United States, produced a monumentwhich anybody but its author would venture to pro-nounce very good.
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