Show Reformer BERNARD BERNAUD SHAW i dramatist dram rind and architectural I ral reformer j who who says war i 1 s sa I 1 a 11 blessing so far as 35 it demolishes I building ins errors of or bygone nc days I w 4 r Y n. n V r v h A Y Y 1 1 s C CB B By Bj y George Bernard I I London Feb 6 Now Now that the world Is suffering from a a. housing shortage I hope we shall begin to mako make our own architectural efforts and avoid the tho building errors of or the past Iam I am not at all sure that much mischIef mischief mischief mis mis- chief has not been done dono In m my lifetime b by the the cre creation Uon of or a g great eat d deal al of or literary or artistic building To live Ilvo In a house ahouse made as dark as possIble possible pos poss sible and with the tho few Cew windows stopped up much lead lead-as ICs pc s- s like living lhing U ln In an architectural tural I am so far tar modern as to believe that every overy building should bo lie knocked down at the end of or twenty years ear for forwe forwe forwe we have ha an Incorrigible Ible habit of or sponging sponging ing InS on the past at the fuss Cuss we made malIc In ware warl days das over cathedral Any nr reasonable rea rca state of or society would have said nothing hut but would have got hold of more brinks and stained glass and built It again All 11 m my i II iu a I have had hat the feeling that each generation should possess Its ItH own art Tho The worship of the past can be cured c red only b by the wholesale destruction destruction destruction tion of ot tho the monuments of ot the tho past past past- to drive us 1111 by lIr a kind of or starvation to produce our own n buildings At present after tolerating bad archItecture architecture architecture arch arch- a alt the year ear round persons go o for or r a holiday In some ot old En English lIsh village vilJa village vil vil- Ja lage e to to see see buildings f fit t which there should be bc no need tc to look twice IC we co vold the loss of human life liro Involved In h hy war I should be glad lad to have had a half halt dozen great reat wars wars so that all the tho cottages and the villages es In E Europe rope might be bo knocked down to compel us to replace them I |