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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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velopment inmodern America we should encourage aninterpretation of the best environment,preference and idealism characteristic ofour countrv. Aesthetics should govern ourefforts in the design and development of ourcommodities. 46 AR.CHITECT AND ENGINEER. May, 1930 To find an aesthetic solution for a givenproblem and to bring such solution intowell balanced form and color, consideringthe economical, practical and structuralnecessities, is the real basis of good design.This has been true of all ages prior to oursand is still true today. Any limitations as toform, materials or color combinations haveno place in true art. to be what we are not in order to appearwhat we want to be. We stand in the worldof today on top of an inferiority complex.We dont dare to be ourselves. All of whichof course is utterly without reason exceptvvith the probable excuse that we as a na-tion are very young. However, we are be-ginning to grow up and it is in the awaken-mg to that fact that we begin to feel the
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A BATH DRESSING ROOM, DECORATIVE ARTS EXHIBITION, SAN FRANCISCODesigned and Executed by Florence Richardson and Rose Pauson When we adapt directly for the architec-tural efforts in our homes, in our businessbuildings, in our offices and in our places ofamusement, the art of prior periods; whenwe build our modern American structuresm Egyptian, Romanesque, Gothic, or theRenaissances of the middle ages and on upthe line to Colonial, then we cannot talkabout creative art at all. We confess ourinability to express our national feelingsartistically. We confess that we are trying strength within us for self-expression. To make beautiful things bv hand andmould into them the individualism of themaker brings out the fine romantic quali-ties. Which qualities we have lost in theprogress of that particular development ofwhich all of America is proud. Produc-tion in every field is based upon the ingen-uity of this nation to find labor saving de-vices and to simplify the drudgeries ofhand labor. Th

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