Show NEW STYLE OF architecture long sought and made possible only through the employment of modern reinforced concrete planning a memorial church to he built entirely of concrete an american architect introduces a novel mods mode of construction and claims to have found what architects for centuries have failed to produce nn an entirely new and pure style of architecture pure because it conforms to all the essential ideas lileas of 0 architecture new because only modern reinforced concrete hits has made it possible alie structure takes advantage of the plasticity of reinforced for ed concrete and the bul lillne which would be practically monolithic when I 1 finished ini shed would have its external and internal forms form identical to a degree new to architecture its vaults would mould spring direct brorn the floor level find there would be no separating distinction between walls and roof in fact one might say that the build ing in would be all roof and have no structural walls wails whatever architectural tec tural opinion may tail fall of unanimous approval yet it must be admitted that the plan seems to adapt itself logically to the medium in which it Is to be worked out which la is an important point in its favor exchange |