Collaboration

"We wish to make it plain that we are more interested in contributing to the great architecture of the world than in standardizing the bricks and mortar of which it must be made." Thus Milton B. Medary Jr., Philadelphian, president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome. At the Institute's 60th Convention, next month, Chairman C. Grant La-Farge of the new committee will explain what the Institute means by "collaboration" among U. S. architects, mural painters, landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives on the new committee. include celebrated teachers aswell as practitioners--bristling little Paul P. Cret, whom students at the University of Pennsylvania regard as another Leonardo; able Everett V. Meeks, dean of fine arts at Yale; George W. Kelham, who supervised the Panama Exposition and builds for the University of California; Sidney Lovell of Chicago and J. Monroe Hewlett of Manhattan.