'This is tomorrow' was an exhibition which hoped to set a pattern
for future collaboration between architects, painters and sculptors
and encourage greater integration of the arts. But if the catalogue
is anything to judge by, it didn't set a good example. It begins
with three separate introductions, presumably one representing the
architects, one the painters and one the sculptors. And while
collaboration and co-operation is the theme, competition and
specialisations emerge, making a 'varied not unified' whole. Here's
my favourite quote from the catalogue: 'Architecture is not
something just to keep the rain out, painting is not for covering the
cracks in the walls, or sculpture a traffic obstacle of a general on
a horse. They are forces acting on our lives'.
