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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know Sullivan or Sul-livanesque the argument for modernismseems all the more convincing and conclu-sive. So we see that the stone which the build-ers rejected became the head of the corner.Where Sullivan lived and worked for hislost cause the pearl of great price cameto light, namely the functional design ofSaarinen in the Tribune competition. It is interesting to note that the very nextbuilding of this type built in this countrywas the American Radiator Building inNew York in which Raymond Hood usedSaarinens motifs and scheme of design al-most verbatim. In fact, the entire form ofthe building is very similar to SaarinensTribune Tower solution. Mr. Hoods as-sociate in the Tribune Tower, John MeadHowells, likewise copies the style in hisPan-Hellenic House in New York. Since 1922 the sky lines of our greatcities have changed and are becoming moreand more spotted with designs of this char-acter which eschews the classic orders, in-cluding columns, cornices and ornamentsalmost entirelv. I
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TR.WEL .AND TR.^NSPORT.ATION BriLOINC. 1135 WORLDS F.\IR. CHICAt.O. ILLINOIS B)y Hr.Veliep T HERE is no need to tell anyonethat art and architecture have gone mod-ern. But what does it mean? Does it meana radical change in looks? Does it meanthat we shall throw all precedent aside andthen manufacture new standards and newconceptions of beauty out of whole cloth? This is far from the truth, I think. Mod-ern art and architecture are not concernedwith looks, and do not care whether or notprecedent is followed; nor are they con-cerned with any rules. There is a general idea that a style mustchange after a certain length of time simplybecause it has become monotonous. Minorchanges may be made for this reason, butthe great changes, as the Greek and Gothicarts, were not made for this reason and ourmodern art is as great a step as either oneof these. The desire for change or changefor the sake of a change had little to dowith our modern art. At the time modern art was getting astart people we

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