Abstract

Architecture

There is a special interest today in theories of cost and finance issuing from Radio City. Cooperation, such as its architects propose, between the various workers who put up the buildings, is entirely to the good. In Radio City, for example, there is the Music Hall auditorium which, for all the architects' mousiness about "appearance," is sensually a delight. But even here the pleasure is not proof against disquieting after thoughts doubts mounting daily about the scale, wherever the building is discussed. The curious conception of the scheme as a whole, which seems to have been based more on boom and congestion than on anything pertaining to the art of the theater, has entered every part of it, bringing even into this hall some embarrassing flaws that arise from having to reconcile huge with intimate.