But to invoke the timber house as our salvation under existing conditions seems to be singularly perverse and unhelpful. Pisé, at all events, seems to offer us a more promising field for exploration than most of the other heterodox methods of construction that have been suggested, too often upon credentials that will not bear any but the most cursory scrutiny.
Pisé, even now, is still in its experimental infancy.
It has yet to prove itself in the fields of National Housing and of competitive commercial building schemes on a large scale.
Lastly, Pisé does not claim to solve the housing problem. There is no solution unless, by some miracle, the present purchasing power of the sovereign appreciates by 200 per cent.
Clough Williams-Ellis.
22, South Eaton Place,
London, S.W.1.
May 1920.
[1] Certain of these have since been issued and will be found in [Appendix IV.]at the end of the book.
[2] See [Appendix IV.]
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