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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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pying old world mod-els, and at the same time it demonstrates theintrinsic merit of these models in showing theconsistent unity of design in each country andits entire dissimilarity to each other country.The Egyptians built Egyptian architec-ture ; the Greeks built Greek architecture;the Japanese built Japanese architecture. Al-though they all started from the same sourcewhether it be Assyria or Egypt, yet in the endthey developed their own peculiarities, whichbecame characteristics. We, today, in America are in spite of our-selves doing the same thing, are producing alike result. W5 are learning to study the archi-tectural idea in the abstract; to know it in suchterms as symmetry, proportion, grace, color,harmony, etc., instead of Classic, Renais-sance, Egyptian or Gothic. We have at different times copied a Greektemple for modern usages, and even a few at-tempts have been made to use the Egyptiantemples as models, and the scarcity of theseattempts proves the impossibility of looking
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Fenang Street S\ •Junior member of the firm of Sutton & Weeks, architects, Mutual Savings Bank Building,San Francijico. 36 The Architect and Einriiiecr Bungalow at Pcitaiig. on old world architecture in another way than as models expressing thehighest ideas of beauty in the language of the nation that produced them. The great dif-ference in archi-tecture of theold world na-tions is largelydue to the im-possibility ofclose communi-cation betweenthem and there-by the necessityof each nationworking out itso w n salvationwithout b e in gcontinually ham-p e r e d by itsneighbors, a n donly limited bylocal conditions. We today have our old world knowledge too close at hand,but even with that handicap we are, controlled by local conditions, graduallyworking out our own architecture. Who can say that we in America have not an architecture of our own?Where in the world will you find structures at all like our best modern build-ings? Point out to me a Columbia College Library, a Universit

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