Identifier: architectenginee5017sanf (find matches)
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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employed to workthem out. Where there is more than one equally good solution of the problemadvanced, a second com))etition becomes necessary, so as to allow theauthors to work out their ideas in detail. itructions for the conscientious, to be broken bvthe winner, is silliness and injustice. As to judging of the most useful idea, I should say let all the competi-tors—as those who have naturally studied the problem most carefully—vote on what they think is the best idea outside of their own : this would besomewliat of a guidance to the judges who should he those who are going touse the Iniililing most of the time; who naturally know their wants best andcan fully api)reciate the ideas given them. Tiiis metliod UKiy possibly be abused as much as the one now in vogue; sothe.se thoughts are only put forth as a sketch. 88 THE ARCHITECT ASD ESCINEER
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LIBRARY, RESIDE\CE OF MR. MAXSTR. LOS AXGELESMorgiin. Halls fr Morgan. Archilccis Planning the Library^ By JOHN HICRBERT WEKKS THE liljraiy is the room where restfuhiess, ah(jve all other (;ua!ities.should be the keynote of the decorative treatment. Calmness and(juietness must prevail here to a marked degree. These (;ualities areoljtainable only through a clear understanding of the more intimate rela-tionships of line, form, and color. .Although a definite formula for dealingwith such a problem of art is impractical, the fundamental i<leas whichgovern this subject may be briefly set forth. In the library, as in the other rooms, good taste, not wealth, determinesthe artistic (piality; and, as in the rest of the house, the location governsthe kind of treatment; and elements of li.glit, heat, or moisture have muchto do with selection of materials. Uesides, the individual ideas of theowner, to a certain degree, must be embodied if we are to create a suitableenvironment for him. In part

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