"Lawrie's Creed."
According to Lawrie,
“The problems of present-day architectural sculpture are more practical than artistic. The sculptor is like of of the fiddlers in an orchestra. Sculptors who work on buildings know this.
I think there are more opportunities for artistic thought in meeting the resistances that a modern building puts out than in purely aesthetic sculpture. Your have to confine yourself to the architectural language and stick within its medium, but I don't think these limitations prevent anyone from using what imagination and skill he has.
On buildings, the sculptor's object is not to make an outstanding detail as much as it is his job to help complete the building.
There will always be gallery sculpture, but architectural sculpture has a different purpose. The sculptures of Babylon,
Egypt, Greece and even of the Middle Ages were made almost entirely for and on buildings. The art museum is a recent invention—it was unknown in Rembrandt's time—and sculpture in the early days was done for a reason.”
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