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
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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otswold was evolved inour studios and laboratories to meet many needs of which we learned from archi-tects and builders, and notably to cover homes like that of Mr. Chris Jones, SierraOaks, Sacramento, pictured above (designed by Frank Williams). This roof is inrusset shades running strongly to gun metal. To color attractiveness add studiedroughness of texture and irregularity of laying, and you have in Cotswold an effec-tiveness that may cause your client to say: Just what I want! The low price ofCotswold deserves your attention. GLADDING, McBEAN & CO, San Fr.ancisco - Los Angkles - Portl.andSk.\ttle - Spokane I HIS LAST JIORKOne of the last and most successful houses designedl,y the late George Washington Smith of Santa Bar-bara, is the Kirk B. Johnson home, n detail of whichis shoivn on the next page. Air. Smith received anHonor Aiiard from the American Institute of Archi-tects, for the excellent design of this house only a feifdays prior to his death. ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, I
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ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. Volume CI JUNE, 1930 Number Three or RCHITECTWRE T, HE worlds our stage and all thereinare actors—men, women, children; eventhings, ideas, dreams, hopes and fears.Courage we ask, to better our stage. The foreground, here illustrated, is se-lected from a line array of recent homes—delightful in their details—created, appar-ently, with the utmost ease—a limpid brush,an unlimited palate, a few strokes and be-hold the world of our dreams. Homes tomatch the drama of mans power. The background is a process of evolu-tion and influences. It has much of inter-est to us, is more vital than the flower. Theparent, says the philosopher, is of moremoment than the child. It can recreate.Our background spreads from the begin-ning of being, colorful beyond the powerof the casual eye to behold, inter and over-woven; in form, sublime and otherwise. The action is here and now, related tobackground and future by unbreakable ties.Shelter is second to the greatest of humancon

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