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Identifier: architectenginee7022sanf (find matches)
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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ntryside the See America First propagandists will have some-thing more valid than patriotism on which to base their pleas. Warmsunshine gleaming on clean white walls between hillside oaks; luminous,transparent shadows across the native stubbly ground and luxuriantgarden patches; spacious rooms behind cool gray reveals which temperthe summer heat; all of these things have become integral with thecountry as inevitably as the building of longer standing in the Old World.The academic critic might be moved to complain that Mr. Smiths THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 55 buildings contain no arciiitecture, so uncompromisingly has he dismissedthe entire paraphernalia of traditional architectural respectability. Pic-turesque masses of plain walls in undulating lime-white plaster; windowsirregularly, judiciously spotted, Init severely plain in generous reveals;tile roofs summarily clipped to a ragged edge almost at the wall line;only here and there a discreet touch of wrought iron or polychrome tile;
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ENTRANCE GATE. HOUSE OF MR. GEORGE WASHINGTON .SMrfH, SANTA BARBARA. CALIF. George Washington Smith. Aichitect no motifs, no elements, not even a main axis! Only freedom,warmth, ease, content, repose. Remy de Gourmont, in a penetratingessay on The Dissociation of Ideas, drops the suggestive remark thatthe beautiful is what is in its place. A criterion apparently so simple,yet how exacting! Mr. Smiths architecture will stand the test. Everypart and detail is inevitably, unerringly in its place. \\ith serenity anda delicate human charm to boot, who can remain insensitive to beautyso mellow? 56 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER

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  • bookid:architectenginee7022sanf
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture
  • booksubject:Building
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco___Architect_and_Engineer__Inc
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:441
  • bookcollection:sanfranciscopubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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