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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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n spontaneous,for it has not. Take such works as Trinity in .\ew ^drk City, linilt someyears ago, and the works of II. II. Richardson. The works of tlic latterwere almost entirely Romanes(;ue. the style which preceded the (jothic, tobe sure, but it ;)ossessed a \igor and \itality that has never been e(;uallcdby any man working in the same style since. Sad to say, the spirit in thework of the style he started died with Richardson. There are many good examples of work scattered here and therethroughout the country, but they seem very few when comjiared witli thecountless numbers of )ioor examjiles that surround them. Doors 700 Years Old Tliere was recently exhil)ited in Xew York City four door jianels carvedm JajJan in the twelfth century, and which are said to ha\e once adorneda .Shinto shrine. The material of which they were made was Satsuma oak.The eight compartments were ornamented with llowo birds and clouddesigns in relief, representing the four heavens. The Architect ami Engineer
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SHPIf-IXC THE EFFICACY OF GOOD FIRF. MALLS, METAL IIIXDOII-FRAMES ASD WIRE GLASS Tnr .l-chi-rt and liir^iih-rr 69 Factories and Their Fire Protection* A Tract for the Architect and Builder V.y IKAXKLIX li. \\1-;\T\\( )K 11 1 ARC1UTEL1S and builders are sluwly ciiteriny into a new phase oftiieir accountability. Just as the architect, whose primary impulse isthat of the artist, has been compelled in the interest of his clientslargely to master the technique of the builder, so both the architect and thebuilder are now being called upon to protect their clients in the matter oftire hazard. The enormous aggregate of the .American fire waste, whichcontrasts us so unfavorably with European prudence, is beginning to crippleand impoverish us as the natural resources of the country, once believedto be ine.xhaustible, are ceasing to respond tt) the demands of our habitualextravagance. The common notion that the insurance companies pay thecost of fires is gradually giving way to an intelligent un

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