Architect and engineer . estpicture in the room, a picture whichshould have been a powerful unit. How-ever, due to defective lighting or lack ofconsideration for ensemble efifect in design, the garden clubs does not fill thisopening, the lower part being very dark andrich in coloring and the upper part verypale. However, in making any criticism of thelighting it must be acknowledged that il-lumination has become an art in itself, andthat owing to the diversity in the characterand technique of the window paintings, theproblem was in this instance greatly comp-licated. Certainly the lig
Architect and engineer . estpicture in the room, a picture whichshould have been a powerful unit. How-ever, due to defective lighting or lack ofconsideration for ensemble efifect in design, the garden clubs does not fill thisopening, the lower part being very dark andrich in coloring and the upper part verypale. However, in making any criticism of thelighting it must be acknowledged that il-lumination has become an art in itself, andthat owing to the diversity in the characterand technique of the window paintings, theproblem was in this instance greatly comp-licated. Certainly the lighting of the win-dows was done with great skill, as was theindirect lighting of the pylon and pylonexhibit cases between the booths. Consid-ering the excellence of most of the lighting,it is highly probable that whatever defectsthere were in the stand and garden illumi-nation, were due to the hurry of finishingthe exhibit to open on schedule time; ormaybe Im wrong and there were no May, 1930 AND ENGINEER. ^ 39. U indow iainted un Glass by Ray Boynton, assisted by Hazel DriscoII, Eifrida Nagel and Harold Dean Window Painted defects. In any case, it would do no harm inthe future to allow the illuminating expertsa full day to make readjustments after theshow is all ready to open. In general the architectural design wasingenious and certainly superior to the pre-vious ones in the opportunities which itpresented for the exhibiting artists. , who is responsible for the plan,and Mr. Pelenc who developed the color-scheme, are to be congratulated. I particu-larly regret that the painters did not co-operate to produce a unified ensemble. Theday is approaching when machine madeand stamped ornament of all sorts will beabsolutely eliminated from our buildings,and whatever decoration they have will beindividual works by real artists. That dayhas already come in northern Europe andit cannot be far away in America. For the artist who will work in cooperation withthe archite
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