Mention of Tudorian architecture reminds one that architecture is becoming increasingly popular as a career with, girls. It needs a long training, five years at the Architects Association, which occupies three beautiful old houses side by side in Bedford Square. The fees are not unduly high, at 24 guineas a term, but of course the student must have private means, or a family to keep her during the five years. The training is as thorough as it can well be, including steel construction, materials, history, colour, life drawing, acoustics, hygiene and surveying. When a girl has got her A. A. dip-Jama (or, for that matter a man also) she must do a year's office work before she is qualified for an associateship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
In the planning of a house women certainly should do as well, if not better than men, for they know by instinct what, a housewife needs. Recently I went over a newly built, quite expensive house, lovely to look at from outside, but to a woman's eye needing all borts of adjustment inside to make it really convenient, the climax being teached in the best bedroom, which had all sorts of odd angles and projections that would make the disposal of furniture quite a problem.
Apropos of the speculative builder a young couple I know (he is in the Ait Force) have lately been transferred to a station in the north where the aerodrome is miles from a. town. A solitary row of bungalows, however, offered accommodation and the husband applied to the builder, "No, haven't got one vacant," the latter replied, "but could build you one." "How long would that take?" "Oh, a matter of three weeks," was the answer.
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