Identifier: architectenginee1030sanf (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
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rent or ownnew homes at present construction prices.\Miat is new, less than ten years? Sincewhen did we figure the life of even frameconstruction as less than twenty or twenty-five years? What is to become of it if wedo grow so new minded? What of thedrain on resources if we are not compelledto extract the older values from ourbuildings? What of the upkeep experts?Do we discard them? Hardly! June, 1930 ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. 39 We wish this were the complete answer,but reason tells us that the $336 statisticiansallot for workers rent will not purchasemuch even in older buildings. Is thereany wonder that struggle occurs and laborberates capital with its interest charges?Such ideas bombard our peace. Mansion The harassed should take hope. Moderndesigners are deliberately seeking elimina-tion and simplification as their keynotes.The very wealth of the times makes se-lection necessary to save us all from thesivamp. In architecture, it began long be-fore the ^Vorld War by questioning both
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1930 Honor Aimrd, A.!.A. HOUSE FUR CURTIS CATE, CARPENTERIA, CALIFORNIAReginald D. Johnson, Architect or tenement, it is important to someone, andworthy a lot of thought by those who haveany power of solution. We remember that the rush of the dayseems essential but maddening to many.Their efforts for satisfaction are vital tothemselves only, but we must take it allwith the days work and resolve it into itsproper place. Better things come onlythrough experience and trial with a realknowledge of the worthwhile things of life. construction and design. Construction isbeing unified with modern usages and ex-perience. Cornices, extravagant casingsand wild forms have been curtailed, homesare more usable, with the result that a newfrankness is recognizable and a new classi-cism is making itself felt in many fields. In homes, special furnishings againstsimple walls continue to grow in favor.We wish to see the interiors in the Max C.Chotiner home designed by L. G. Scherer, 40 ar.chite:ct AND EN

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