knowledgement that man himself is
the object of our efforts to shelter
his body, release his spirit, and nur-
ture his development.
 President Richards has repeatedly
 reminded us that "Architecture must
 serve all strata of society". I may say
 this is true in New Orleans, in Little
 Rock, in Montgomery and Atlanta
 as well as in Washington and Toledo.
 Ours is an age in which the great
 potential of our technology is still
 too largely the servant of military
 preparedness on the one hand and
 capital concentration on the other.
 It is an age which produces the
 finest housing in the world for its
 machines, its merchants and its
 actuaries but has not yet organ-
 ized itself to adequately house its
 schools or its people. By volume of
 ideas, architects have made great
 contributions to these fields, but by
 volume of construction it is slight
 indeed.
 Therefore, we need to concentrate
 on the distribution of ideas and the
 in-fighting necessary to carry them
 through. For every monument of the
 masters there are a thousand modest
 buildings to be done; and for every
 custom built house a thousand hum-
 ble homes that will not pay even a
 fractional fee. Out of these homes
 will come the clients of tomorrow's
 architecture. Who will do these
 houses which condition the character
 of the future? Will they be delivered
 by the architectural mid-wives as
 they are today, or will the profession
 really serve even if it is not so
 profitable?

 3. The all-face of superficiality -
For eighteen months I have watched
construction proceed at snail's pace
on a small bank near my office.
Somehow it sums up for me the
recurrent superficiality of so much
of our design. Three colors of marble
and two colors of metal panel and
much expensive aluminum trim are
employed to sheath a brick and
concrete block structure, tieing open-
ings together in panels of expression-
less verticality. There is nothing
genuine in it, nothing which reflects
a purpose or will or dominant con-
dition or idea.
 Design is in search of the genuine.
We may find it in regionalism of
material or climate, or in clear re-
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