Identifier: architectenginee5017sanf (find matches)
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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. If itcame to be recognized that architecture may find expression in everyform of building—what beautiful tr;insformations might be wrought IArchitecture, called by way of partial definition the art of building beau-tifully, should not be confined to )niblic or monumental buildings—itshould realize its true mission of beautifying what we now regard a.severy-day commercial, utilitarian edifices. Recent years have seen a marked advance in the architectural treat-ment of office buildings, shojjs and even loft buildings—the last builtessentially for commercial i)ur))oses. .\rchitecture, indeed, as ap;)lied to building, has been proved a bene-ficial asset rather than an esthetic iileal. l^everal architects of Chicagoand the Middle West have attained remarkaiile success in distinctly archi-tectural renderings of factory buildings; and to point the moral of thisbrief essay, a few illustrations are presented to show that architectural * IloKK^on Magaiine. 54 THE ARCHITECT .L\D EM.IXEEK
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TWO l-OII l-.K l-L.IXTS I^IiSICSLD BV WILLIS POLK<v CO.\//.l.vr, AXD IRAISED BY C. MATLACK PRICEFOK THEIR ARCHITECTURAL DICMTY AXD GRACE THE ARCHITECT AND EAGIXEER 55 ideals are by no means incompatible with a type of building usually re-garded by most of us as hopelessly utilitarian—buildings for powerhouses and pumping stations. A Pacific Coast architect, however, has distinguished himself for yearsby his unusual rendering of this type of building. Plants which, in mostinstances, have been accepted as irremediable blots upon their immediatelocalities, ha\e been given the architectural dignity and grace which arecommonly regarded as the special perf;uisites of architectural buildings,such as libraries and the like. Perhaps the spell has been broken—perhaps those people who needmost to dream dreams and see visions of architectural beauty have beenand are being graduallx awakened, by the patient endea\ors of a fewearnest and insjiired architects, to a realization that there ma&g

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