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consideration, which no professional man should be devoid of 

 if he wishes to rise in his jjrofession, and if he has already 

 risen without this it must liave lieen by luck more than art 

 in arcliitecture; I say art, because architecture is a In-anch 

 of art. 



A g-reat deal depends upon the site as to what material the 

 building should be erected of, and all the surroundings shoukl 

 l)e ()l)served, also the materials at hand. For a Avealthy man 

 the cost of materials would be of little consideration, but to a 

 moderately well off man it would be different, and to a poor 

 man a great difference, and thus the expense would have to 

 be taken into consideration. 



I would not advise a chent wishing to build a house in the 

 countrv and where surrounded by hills, say like Mount 

 Wellington, with a dark brownish green foliage for a back- 

 ground, and the house proposed to be built to be somewhat 

 elevated, to erect it with red bricks, but rather with a hghter 

 material : the client may not be able to afford stone, what 

 material then? Why, Portland cement compo (I would 

 prefer stone or white bricks), which would not only give a 

 sound weathei'-proof building, but also a building that Avonld 

 look well by seeming to stand out from the background. On 

 the other hand, should the foliage be a light green or yellow 

 green generally, or should there be white cliffs or hills 

 surrounding the site, then a bright red brick building would 

 be desirable, or a brick building with stone. I could say a 

 good deal about stone buildings, l)utasmy paper is short, and 

 only for brick and cement structures, I must leave that for a 

 future period. Cement dressings, especially if pressed and 

 built in as masonry, have a good effect, and I cannot do better 

 than refer to a red brick Gothic church in Prince's Square, 

 Launceston, where the pressed cement is used in place of free- 

 stone throughout, and a splendid piece of work has been made 

 of same. Now, I can see no objection to this, as the work has 

 well done at a cheaper cost tlian if fi-eestone had been used, the 

 windows being similar and the mouldings the same; several 

 moulds would do the whole of the work of casting, thereby 

 savinp- a areat cost which would have otherwise been incurred 

 in stone-cutting and gettmg stone from distant qurrries, also 

 the pressed cement being far superior to most of the freestones. 

 In Hobart it would be a different matter, as the town is in 

 the middle of stone quarries of different qualities. 



Should a site be selected for building, and it has been 

 decided to erect a red brick building, then a building giving 



