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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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e drawings so much that the idea of colorseems to have escaped us. Greece in someof her modern buildings has followed herancient leaders both in design and color.The Library, the Museum, the Academy atAthens, are pure Greek classic and coloredas did the ancients. The color application,however, has not been a success in thiscase, as it is coming off very fast.Color is one of the important elements in Japanese and Chinese Archi-tecture. The old temples are brown wood with thatched roofs, but eventhese have the ends of beams, etc., painted white. The more recent ones arelavish in red lacquers, black roof and metal trimmings and some parts areplaster and half timber work. Photographs are not only inadequate to show color, but to give thetrue idea of proportion and scale. My idea of Japanese architecture from photographs was that cute littlebungalow described it. But monumental in plan, gorgeous in color, wealthyin detail and with all charmingly set about with formal and informal gardening
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Doorway, Chinese Temple, Canton, China.

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