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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e gen-eral proportions of the room; with the lightcoming chiefly from these clerestory win-dows, and the special exhibit booths in deeprecesses under the windows, the typicalcross section of the room was not unlikethat of a nave with side chapels. The out-standing achievement of last years showwas the remarkable unity of the ensemble,in which respect it surpassed the best roomsin any of the modern art shows which Ihad seen the previous season in Austria,Italy, Germany and France. With its formsimplified by the filling in of the galleryarches, this years exhibition room shouldhave been equally fine in ensemble eflfect.In those eight large clere-story windows,the architect provided an unique opportun-ity for the eight artists who were invitedto paint them,—a rare chance to prove tothe art-loving world, and to architects inparticular that modern artists can cooper-ate and can adapt their own special theoriesand ways of working to produce something 35 36 ARCHITECTAnd engineer. Mav, 1930
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Photo by Mia ShiJios AUDITORIUM, DECORATIVE ARTS EXHIBITION, SAN FRANCISCODESIGNED BY WILLIAM I. GARKEN, ARCHITECT May, 1930 AR.CH1TLCT AND ENGINEER, 37 which will fit into and help the generalcomposition of a room or building. Show-ing a generosity which he would hardlyhave been free to exercise in permanentwork, and with well-justified confidence inthe ability of these artists, Mr. Garren gavethem all possible freedom to express them-selves. They took it;—in eight difTerent di-rections. These paintings remind one ofKiplings poem which describes the here-after of the deserving artists: Each in his separate planetAnd each in his separate starShall paint the thing as he sees itFor the God of things as they are.The trouble is that we are not yet in sep-arate planets. The scale varies from theminiature to the colossal; the colors rangefrom the infra to the ultra end of thespectrum; and some are laid on as heavilyas oils and some as delicately as water col-ors. Some have a pictorial qua

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