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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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enjoyed is a conception of interest and individuahty. The town is laid outwith due consideration for the various factors which must inevitably domi- THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 49 nate its life; it is, in fact, determined by them. Yet it very cleverly avoidsthe pitfalls of the stock, the arbitrary, the ready-made. Its appearance isthat of a community which has grown naturally and of an inner impulsethroughout the course of years. It is invested, in addition, with a flexibilitywhich will permit it to be constructed gradually, according to its groovingneeds, as well as to adjust its development readily to requirements whichmust inevitably change as to detail along with the course of its growth. The graphical presentations of the ideas deserve a special word of mention.They offer a curious combination of decorative and realistic qualities which isdecidedly piquant. Mr. Herdings pen, pencil, and brush all wander overthe paper with a nonchalance which, superficially at least, at times seems
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THE SITE OF THE MINING TOWN NEAR JEROME, ARIZONA equivalent to carelessness. It is only after realizing the unerring precisionwith which his facts are invariably set forth that one appreciates that itall must have been strictly under the control of foresight and intelligence.It is both novel and refreshing to see matter-of-fact subjects like plans andelevations of miners dwellings presented with an effect distinctly deco-rative, yet sacrificing thereby nothing of their essential architectural accu-racy. Most of these drawings have had to undergo a considerable over-reduction to bring them within the compass of the magazine page. Thewater colors, in flat, opaque color on heavily tinted boards, have in additionhad to bear the transcription to one color. The reports which Messrs Herding & Boyd have written on theMining Town near Jerome, Arizona, the Typical Miners House, in con-junction with this scheme, and the Replanning of Clarkdale, Arizona, setforth clearly the essential facts i

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