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There are few climates in the world where
society can exist without the protection afforded by buildings. The result of a
lack of such protection will be epidemics and other war an post-war sufferings
in catastrophic proportions. Reconstruction and building activity on a large scale is, therefore, an absolute necessity. This, if it is done with both speed and efficiency, will be the most helpful activity in the present situation.
The lesson of former attempts
At the close of the last war a similar need
of reconstruction existed. Compared with today’s need the problem of twenty
years ago was minor. But, for all that, the slow, unmethodical mode of
reconstruction employed in Belgium and in certain parts of France doubtless was
in great part responsible for the epidemics that had such tragic consequences during
that period. And the physical suffering imposed on the inhabitants of many of
the war-torn regions by the makeshift character of these first barrack-shelters
probably played a serious psychological role in fostering social unrest among
these people.
Now
there are again signs that a similar sort of clumsy, unsystematic approach to
reconstruction may be undertaken. But there is a grave difference in the
present crisis which must be kept in mind. Today mistakes such as were made
after the last war will be a hundred times more costly due to the difference in
the scale of destruction.
Today Red Cross activity and that of many
other relief groups offering direct aid to suffering humanity is highly organized.
But, there are still no organisations or group-efforts aimed directly at
discouraging haphazard, unscientific reconstruction activities.
Today,
compared with other forms of destruction, the indirect threat to human life
through the destruction of even man’s most elemental shelfters is
proportionately many times greater than it was after the last war. This is why
the organization of scientific and humanitarian methods of combating this
indirect disaster is vitally and urgently necessary. An organized,
scientifically conducted work of reconstruction must be undertaken in
connection with a laboratory centre where the most desirable methods of meeting
actual building problems may be studied.
Architectural research and the post-war
reconstruction problems
From a structural viewpoint the problem of
post-war reconstruction is closely related to ordinary peacetime housing
problems. In times when the cultural development maintains an even tenor the organization
of social groups and buildings also grows evenly and harmoniously. In times
then the basic character of the cultural structure changes abruptly, due to the
more speedly development of certain elements of society than others, the organization
of human dwellings, of cities and even patterns of living, become confused,
uneven and full of conflicting currents. In such times there is especially need
for some controlling body or group.
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