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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raper, church and pal-ace to the industrial plant, filling stationand row of workmens houses, the modern-ist product will win hands down on thescore of soundness, reality, simplicity andhonesty. C. Howard Walker of Boston, spokes-man for the conservatives, asserted that themodernists could not escape the past. It has been reserved for the so-calledmodernists, he said, to be irritated at anyresemblance to anything that has calm, andto adore excess in every direction; to beshapeless, crude, eliminated in detail tonothingness, explosive in detail to chaos, andto create sensation with the slapstick andthe bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods ofarchitecture, but when it does it will neces-sarily have in it traditions of sound previousmethods, with which at present it is in con-flict. It is now at times infantile, and hasgrowing pains. Occasionally it reaches aserious adult stage. Therefore Hope isstruggling at the bottom of the open Pan-doras Box. 58 ARCHITECTAND ENGINEER, July, 1930
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Photo by Morton & Co. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SANATORIUM, SAN FRANCISCOHENRY H. GUTTERSON, ARCHITECT ACtlMSTIAN SCIENCE by ■ N looking at any building criticallywe always derive the greatest pleasure ifthe architectural idea is easily discoveredand forms the basis of the artistic concep-tion. Henry Gutterson, the architect of theSanatorium at San Francisco for the Chris-tian Science Benevolent Association, Pa-cific Coast, has succeeded in producing anefifect that does this in a very striking man-ner. The building is placed in a grove ofsplendid Eucalyptus trees and has taken itsidea from its setting. For this reason a wordshould be devoted to the site itself, awooded hillside sloping rather abruptly to-ward the southeast. A good deal of studyand scheming must have been necessary tosurmount the apparent difficulties of thisterrain. Mr. Gutterson has reached a solu-tion of all thesedifficulties and has,as is often the case,converted seemingdifficulties intovery real advan-tages. We imag

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