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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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Lee Gil-bert in 1888. A few years later both these wonders became insignificautand practically forgotten because they were so greatly outdone by succeed-ing skyscrapers. But these were not the initial efforts, for a skyscraperwas designed nearly three centuries ago, man^ generations before the dis-covery of the steel cage system of this day. Jacques Perret, an architect of Cliambery, Savoy, is the accredited au-thor of plans for an eleven-story building, 361 feet in height, which musthave had twice the space between floors, for to-day eleven stories arecrowded within a height of 150 feet. Perrets building was planned to be166 feet long and 140 feet wide, with supporting walls 12 feet thick at thebase. While never executed, the project of Perret in many ways was a re-markable prophetic vision. Evidcnth it was intended for dwelling pur-poses, for in describing the project he wrote, This great and excellent edi-fice can accommodate comfortably 500 people. 76 Tlie Arcliitcct and Rn^^inccy
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IRlIXG J. GILL, \l hl 1(1 siir / I yi I SSI ON HOMLARCHITECT 77/( .IrchitCi-t Olid ILui^iiiccr 77 The Home of the Future —The New Architecture ofthe West By IKVIXC, J. f.lLL, Architect*All arti-it is known rather by what he omits. AKClllTI-XTLRK. \ictor Hugo says, is the great botik of the world,the ))riiicii)al expression of man in his different stages of development,the chief register of humanity. Every religious symbol, every humanthought has its page and its monument in that immense book. Down tothe time of Gutenberg, he points out, architecture was the princijjal, tlieuniversal writing. W hoever was born a poet then, became an architect.All arts obeyed and placed themselves under the discipline of architecture.They were the workmen of the great work. There was nothing which, inorder to make something of itself, was not forced to frame itself in the shapeof an architectural hymn or prose. He has shown us that the great prod-ucts of architecture are less the works of individuals

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