206 president's address. — section h. 



In facing post-war problems the architect and engineer will 

 find much in common, and much can be said in favour of their 

 sitting together in the meetings of this section. 



In the scientific aspects of our work as well as in our relations 

 to the community, we are on the same footing, and in our ser- 

 vice to humanity we work on closely parallel lines. 



Looking back into history we find that the relative positions of 

 the engineer and architect have changed with the lapse of time. 

 The engineer is first heard of in connexion with war in providing 

 protection from enemies. The architect started with the peace- 

 ful work of providing protection from the elements, but even then 

 their work seems to have overlapped, as it has done ever since, 

 for when fortifications wer© Avanted, the architect as well as the 

 engineer took a hand. 



The engineer seems ever to have had more of the rough side and 

 the plain utilitarian side of construction work, while the architect 

 working under more peaceful conditions has developed in the 

 ornamental direction until some one has paid him the compliment 

 of calling him ' ' an engineer whose higher activities are those' of 

 an artist." 



On the other hand the engineer has always been prominent ill 

 war, while under war conditions art is banished. There is no 



time for it. 



The engineer is in modern days taking a still larger part in 

 the work of war. So much of it now consists oi problems of 

 transportation and the preparation cf munitions, togetlier with 

 works to assist in the actual fighting, that the engineer is much 

 in evidence, while a large proportion of our leading Generals 

 who rose to high commands during the war were engineers, as, for 

 instance, Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig, General Joffre, the 

 great Hindenburg, and our own General Monash. If the en- 

 gineers did not win the war, they at least tcok a very large share 

 in doing so. 



The architects did their share, too, and are new to the fore in 

 the work of restoration. 



To go back again to earlier days. Many of us will remember 

 how we laboured at the translation of Julius Caesar's account of 

 the bridge he built when defending his country from the ancestors 

 of our late adversaries, the Germans. From his account we judge 

 that he was a military engineer. 



Vitruvius, a Roman military engineer and arcKitect, who lived 

 just after Julius Csesar^ described architecture as includino — 



1. The art of building Fortifications, Public Works, Temples, 



and Public and Private Buildings. 



2. Sundial and Clock making. 



3. Making Machinery. 



