Identifier: architectenginee7022sanf (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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nce, the physical and historical backgi-ounds, the traditions, cus-toms, and outlooks of Massachusetts, rennsylvania, Louisiana. Illinois,California. What is tlitre to suggest that these diverse physical andsocial characteristics should express themselves in similar architecture?Reduce the field of survey to a fraction of this vast area, L.ay California.If its many communities enjoy life responsive to their various situations 52 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER and needs, what degree of resemblance should we expect between archi-tecture in Eureka, Fresno and San Diego? That standardization hasactually been to a large degree achieved is one of the most disquietingaspects of American architecture. When a new office building, Y.M.C.A.,railroad station, or factory appears in one of the magazines, one neverhas the slightest notion, before reading the caption, whether it lies inDallas, St. Louis, Detroit, or one of the two Portlands. The most hopeful sign in American architecture today is not the
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OLD SPANISH BEU. HOUSE OF MR. GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH. SANTA BARBARA. CALIF.Georye Washinjiton Smith, Architect advent of the heralded American Style, but the emergence of numer-ous regional styles. The efficiency expert and booster will forthwithcry provincialism. Yet in truth nothing is more provincial than thestifling of local manners of thought, action, and expression in the effortto assume foreign ones which are neither natural nor appropriate. Acommunity which expresses its individual life in its individual way hasvitality. Let us, then, congratulate ouiselves that the complacent uni-formity of a prospective American Style is compromised in advance byan intrusion recognizably Californian; that the neat simplicity of a Cali-fornian Style is visibly perturbed by nortiiern and southern aspects; THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 53 and that even in these convenient geographical pigeon-holes there arecommunities which are not abashed at being personal. The work of Mr. George Washington Smit

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