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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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neer Some Needed Reforms in Contracting - 59 Frank Miles Day Former President of the .\merlcan Institute of .Architects. How Competitions Demoralize - - - C) A Concrete Bungalow in Japanese Style . . . . . . . (,4 Illustrated with Exterior \ievv and Floor Plans. Some Schoolhouse Designs by a Los Angeles Architect 67 How Cold Storage Buildings are Made Heat Proof ------ 72 Concrete Floor Suspended from Steel Arch Forms Unique Bridge - - - 73 Illustrated Concrete Water Tank on the Ranch 74 Helge Peterson Search for Most Resistant Pile Timber is Made In California - - 7f) Timber Decay Costs Millions - - - - 77 Largest Scrap Heaps in the World - - 78 Rooms in the Ideal House 7 Vitrified Brick Roadways - Will P. Blair SO Decorating the Dining Room ----- • ■ - V^l Ancestry of Mission Furniture ----- ,S3 Selections from tbe Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Architectural Club - 86 Among the Architects - - - - ----- 94 Editorial 98 Heating and Lighting 100 By the Way ------------ 108
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^ _ a; 5 OS = ^UBLIU LIBRARY THE Architect and Engineer Of California Pacific Coast States Vol. XIX. No. 2. DECEMBER, 1909.American Architecture By CH.\RLES PETER WEEKS, Architect.* TJiat America enjoys a distinct type of architecture—a type demanded bylocal conditions— is maintained by Mr. Charles Peter Weeks, tuho recentlyreturned to San Francisco from a six months stay abroad. Just as theGreeks btiilt Greek architecture, and the Japanese built Japanese architectureso the Americans are building American architecture. But while zve arcmaking such splendid progress tozvards a consistent, harmonious style, ilr.Weeks sounds a note of warning that may zvell be heeded—he declares zvespoil some of our best zvork by a too familiar knozvledge of old zvorld archi-tecture and a conseqttent tendency to embody as much of that knozvledge aspossible in our local conceptions. The result is too frequentlv a disappoijitment. In his travels Mr. Weeks photographed more than 200 buildings and afew

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