Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 2, March 16th, 1949.
A New Answer
A New Answer
"There is much danger in New Zealand where there is so much building for homes, and so little catering for the equally important communal needs. Here is a chance to show a lead, to do something new. We are not shackled by any tradition of design—why then we may go ahead and express creatively the essential idiom of modern thought. Most important to remember is that we cannot build like most of those I see around: where a Gothic exterior is wrapped around a space used for what? for shopping or for a factory. This is insincerity. Needless too, in a country which is young and has its own problems of climate and of culture. You up at your university do not wish to repeat this sort of thing, do you?"
We assured Mr. Plishke very fervently indeed that we did not wish to have our students' building looking like the . . . building or the . . . block (you can fill the names in yourself. And then we walked out into the after-work rush, about six inches we felt) above the pavement: feeling a distinct sense of elation that when the Building Fund Appeal had finally achieved its aim, the thinking would be passed over to E. A. Plishke, one of the very few men in this country who thinks deeply enough about architecture to be able to plan a genuine students' building!