Identifier: architectenginee6220sanf (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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d, .with the stadium and athletic field in front. Thesoft reddish tone of the bricks, which are laid up in patterns, gives a svirprisingly richtexture to the wall surfaces, which is enhanced by the planting. On the whole, the juryfeels that this is probably the most successful high school group in the West and anycity should be proud to have attained it. Surely such a magnificent environment must havea perpetual influence on the youth who for four of the most formative years of theirlives must spend the principal part of each day in it. So monumental and important isthe effect of these buildings that it seems unfortunate that the City of Santa Monica hasnot opened up a parkway or vista on the center axis from the school down to OceanBoulevard. Certainly few buildings in Southern California are likely to make a strongerimpression on visitors, if this only be made visible to the great number who continuallypass within a half mile, along the edge of the sea. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 73
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LOOKING TOWARD THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SOUTHERN BRANCH (formerly Los Angeles State Normal School), \ERMONT AVE. Allison & Allison, Architects One of the ten most notable examplesof Architecture in Los Angeles, asselected by the recent Jury. University of California—Southern Branch.—This group of brick buildings, formerlyknown as the Los Angeles State Normal School, is in the early Italian style, leaning toRomanesque. It is notable architecture conceived in a big way and is probably the mostharmonious and attractive group of college buildings in Southern California, if not in theWest. Fortunately the buildings had the advantage of all being designed and constructedat the same time, under the direction of one architect. The group plan, which seems tohave been well studied out in advance, placed the fifteen or more buildings so as to forma campus which is not so large as to lose the sense of intimacy or character, so often lack-ing in American colle

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