SECTION B MODERN ARCHITECTURE 



(Hall 7, September 22, 3 p. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: MR. CHARLES F. McKiM, New York City. 

 SPEAKERS: PROFESSOR C. ENLART, University of Paris. 



PROFESSOR ALFRED D. F. HAMLIN, Columbia University. 

 SECRETARY: MR. GUY LOWELL, Boston, Mass. 



THE Chairman of the Section of Modern Architecture, Mr. Charles 

 F. McKim, of New York City, spoke as follows: 



"The unexampled opportunity offered our profession by this 

 international congress to meet and hear a great number of eminent 

 men of learning from all parts of the world, and to do honor to our 

 distinguished guests, has drawn us together to-day. The tribute you 

 make by your presence is abundant proof of your interest, at a time 

 when the demands of professional practice arc both numerous and 

 imperative. It is eminently fit and proper that one of the divisions 

 of this great congress should be devoted to architecture; not only is 

 this true, but we are highly fortunate to be assembled here in a com- 

 munity whose splendid spirit of progress in recent years has placed 

 it in the front rank of cities in the march of public improvement. 



" Under these circumstances,! deem it a high privilege and pleasure 

 to be permitted to welcome you to this session on 'Modern Archi- 

 tecture.' Architecture is the oldest of the arts. Its principles were 

 developed early in the history of the race. Its laws were formulated 

 long before the Christian Era, and its most exquisite (lowers bloomed 

 under the skies that fostered the production of beauty. An era of 

 unequaled material and industrial prosperity throughout the coun- 

 try, together with a better understanding on the part of our builders, 

 has brought to us great opportunities. But we should realize that 

 great opportunities demand thorough training, that confidence comes 

 not from inspiration, but from knowledge, that the architect who 

 would build for the ages to come must have 1 training of the ages that 

 are gone. lie must be faithful to the present, mindful of the future, 

 and yet not separated from the 1 past. 1 think we may say of our Muse 

 what, in his recent tribute to Columbia. Bishop Greer said on the 

 occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that uni- 

 versity: 



" She journey;- on. o'er that lonely steep, the hinder foot still firmer.'' 



