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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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n, Jr.). WhileBennett, Brown, Cret and I were oldermen. we still had young ideas. The otherfour were men unquestionably linked to theprogressive school. We met in Chicagoand received from Dr. Allen D. Albert anhistorical outline of previous expositionswhich had been held in this country. Doc-tor Albert acted as honorary secretary of ^ ^^ ► A CENTURY OF PROGRESS the board and served as liaison officer be-tween the Architectural Commission andthe Trustees. After making a rather extensive reviewof previous expositions. Doctor Albert saidthe Trustees wished to ask the board a cer-tain question. I had been elected tempor-ary chairman and questions were put to other angle. My reply to Doctor Albertindicated, as well as any explanation could,the modern approach to architecture, for1 said that the style of the Worlds Fairwould be the last thing determined and notthe first. 1 admitted that it would have beenfar easier for the Architectural Commis-sion to write on slips the thirteen-odd arch-
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ELECTRICAL GROUP Raymond Hood, Architect me. I had a feeling that I knew what thefirst question would be. the same questionwhich a client invariably asks an architectwhen he thinks of building anything froma summer house to a state capitol, namely,what style of architecture he proposesto use. The American public at that time had be-come so accustomed to thinking of archi-tecture as a matter of style that it wasdifficult to approach the problem from any itectural styles from Early New Jersey toLate Pullman, put them in a hat. draw oneand start merrily to create a worlds fairin that particular style, using our well-de-veloped ingenuity in fitting the needs ofthe problem into a long string of Greektemples, Italian palaces or Mexican pueb-los, depending on the drawing in the style lottery. I explained that we did not feelthat that was the correct approach to anyarchitectural problem, much less to one THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 26 ► JUNE, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE CHICAGO EXPOSITION OF 193

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