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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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mes terribly and then is gone—for who knows how long? Who knowsin advance the direction or directions of itsmovement or the intensity of power it willdisplay? We are wise concerning it onlyafter it is past. But none the less the damage that isdone by earthquakes is of a very consistent,uniform character. What has happened tobuildings and to their occupants in South-ern California has happened in other citiesover and over again in the past and willhappen over and over again in the futureuntil such time as building is brought intoa true structural conformity with the loadsto which it is subject. After that, damagedone by earthquakes will be slight and in-consequential. We will command natureby obeying her. Until we do that we haveno reason to think we are receiving aughtbut the impersonal inevitable consequencesof our own mistakes and short-sightednesswhen a disaster of this character occurs.One thing is everlastingly true: it is im-possible to deal falsely and dishonestlywith nature.
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PEN SKETCH BY EDWIN H. SNYDER THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER -^ 30 ^ APRIL, NINETEEN THIRTV-THREE AGAIN-THE ARCHITECT AND THE SMALLHOUSE SERVICE BUREAU by B. C. GREENGARD in Bulletin of IllinoisSociety of Architects T. HE Architects SmallHouse Service Bureau, (generally referredto as the Bureau, for short), has beensubject during the past year to much dis-cussion and criticism. This discussion be-gan prior to the 1932 convention of theAmerican Institute of Architects, was car-ried on in the architectural press andreached its climax at the convention whenthose who object to the activities of theBureau had their inning. Objections to the Bureau are chiefly con-cerned with its activity of selling plans,which tends to compete with the practice ofindividual architects. This charge againstthe Bureau in reality applies to all stockplans, of w^hich many varieties are avail-able from various sources. From thearchitects point of view, stock plans rep-resent an evil which he is powerless to elim-ina

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