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Show NOTED EHITECT TALKSJF CAPITOL Head of 'Pacific Coast Architectural Archi-tectural League Says Commission Com-mission Has Erred. "It Is very much to be regretted that your state capltol commission did not sec fit, in its wisdom, to surround its contest for plans with the usual safeguards safe-guards and Insuring provisions that an I undertaking of this magnitude deserves. In entirely Ignoring the generally accepted accept-ed method of procedure the commission has barred Itself and tho stale of Utah from the services and ideas of some of the greatest architectural geniuses of the. present day, who would lake part in tho contest if the conditions were proper, but -who cannot do so under tho present provisions, without laying themselves op?u to chnrges of unprofessional conduct;" con-duct;" This is the. statement of Alfred I': Rosenheim, president of the Pacific Coast Architectural league, and a member , of the executive board of the American Instltuto of Architecture, who spent yesterday yes-terday afternoon and last u.giil In S-'alt Lake.- His Ohiof Objection, . Mr. Koseiiholm's chief objection to the contest, under which )o plans for Utalfs capilol building are lo be selected, is that Undoes. not provide for the employment of an expert to prepare the corneal programme, pro-gramme, or for a jury of experts to pick tho winning specifications. Kor so large an undertaking as the building of a slate capltol. Mr. Uoscnhclni says he believes the lack of these precautions highly injudicious in-judicious and unprofessional. Without them I hji contest cannot hav the approval ap-proval of the national Institute, nnd without with-out such approval tho very liest architects archi-tects of the country are, under tin? othlcs of the profession, barred from' submitting their ideas. Fears Trouble May Ensue. "In presuming thcintjolveg to be sufficiently suf-ficiently expert to pas on the winning plans and in preparing u contest that has not the supervision of a recognized expert, ex-pert, the commlsloncrs are laying themselves them-selves lalble to much difficulty and possibly pos-sibly some i;ravc mistakes that will be discovered too j late." continued Mr. nosenhclm. "Kvcn should thecommls-slon thecommls-slon deckle at the eleventh hour to employ em-ploy a jtupervlslng expert. It would he al a' great disadvantage In securing the proper man. becaus" of thu professional restrictions I have mentioned." Mr. 'Rosenheim gave his views on Utah's capltol contest in a very frank maimer at a dinner tendered lo him at the Commcivial dub last night by members mem-bers if- lh local association of arehl-locts. arehl-locts. which Is affiliated with the Pacific Pa-cific Slope leusue. uf which he Is president. presi-dent. About twenty locul architects, many of whom are preparing nlans to 1 (Continued on Paco Tour.) NOTED ARCHITECT TALKS OF CAPITOL Head of Pacific Coast Architectural Archi-tectural League Says Commission Com-mission Has Erred. ' (Continued From Page One.) be entered In fnc contest, were present. pres-ent. In regard lo the site for the capitol. .Mr. Rosenheim, who surveyed Capitol hill ly automobile yesterday afternoon, said that for commanding view it could not be Improved upon, but that it was much loo small for the building Ihe commission com-mission proposes to erect. Why Ground Is Needed. "Ground for n capitol building should be spacious enough to allow of an appropriate ap-propriate setting of landscape gardening." garden-ing." Mr. Rosenheim declared. "Unless the present site is enlarged your magnificent magnifi-cent state house will be put at a ncr-manent ncr-manent disadvantage as n thing of architectural archi-tectural and nrtisllc beauty." It was decided at last night's meeting lo organize a Sail Lake chanter to affiliate af-filiate directly with t'ne American Institute In-stitute of Architecture. Mr. Rosenheim, who has been -attending several nicotines of tho executive! board of the institute in New York, urged ihe organization of the chanter and left with the local architects archi-tects all the necessary papers ami authority au-thority to complete the organization. This will bo done at the next meeting of the local association to be held in February. Febru-ary. It also was decided, to send delegates from Sail Lake to attend tne annual convention con-vention of the Pacific Coast league, to be held In Los Angeles next month. Mr, Rosenheim is registered at the Hotel riab. He will leave for his . home tn Los Angoles this afternooi i |