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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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come confused or take an irrelevant re-mark on a minor detail as condemnation ofthe whole. The razz has no more placein public than a family row. The latest and the new idea fre-quently appear as cunning little imps caus-ing more unrest to home owners than anyother actors in the building or social worlds.They appear in many aspects. The suresteradicators are good work and fundamen-tally right action regardless of fads. 38 AR.CH1TLCT AND ENGINEER, June, 1930 On the other hand, the ijeneral stylemovement is fundamental. Humanitymoves in cycles, and as a rule we shouldtake the lessons of our times. Our co-op-eration is essential to our sanity. Exactingas our conventions may seem, there is stillall the liberty we need. Applied to houses —one architect to three thousand families.In terms of homes, a lifetime of work—be-sides offices, factories development projects,and bridges. What opportunities! Whohas them? The National Bureau of Economic Re-search says, that less than 70 per cent of
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1930 Honor A-.fard. A.I HOUSE FOR CURTIS CATE, C.\RPENTERI.\. CALIFORNIAReginald D. Johnson, .Architect we soon find many of our youthful fanciessuperfluities. Close self analysis banishesmuch of the desire for novelties. Equip-ment, especially, will bear inspection, withits emotional appeals. Perspective will dowonders in any undertaking. Submerged in this magazine we feel theworld is populated by architects, but dividethe old census figures—ten thousand archi-tects to over one hundred twenty millionpeople, equals one to over twelve thousand the nations householders can 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

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