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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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in the field of art where perfection of the object, and of the individualproducing it, is the ideal. We know well enough that this is a commer-cial age. We have that hammered in on us from all sides; from clients;from builders; from commercial organizations; and there always will becommercial architectural organizations to meet the demand of commer-cial clients. But this is not to continue in a rank form. Evidence is notwanting that a spirit of beauty is awakening in the world; and part ofthat beauty consists in sympathetic understanding among peoples, andright relationships among individuals. Nowhere better may they bemade to exist than in the architectural organization—between the archi-tect and his assistant, who mutually are engaged in expressing the high-est ideals of society; mutually endeavoring to write in permanent ma-terials the record of a vital and advancing culture and civilization. mmkdim PEN-AND-INK SKETCH A STREET .SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO 84 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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PANEL IN FRESCO S. PfiLENC. DECORATIVE PAINTER i_i0ninn7 JANUARY, 1927 85 % REVIVAL / an A¥CIENT art IN its skyscrapers, its sumptuous residences, and its great publicbuildings, American architecture reflects the prosperity of this greatyoung nation. Granite pillars, marble stairways, bronze doors, steelconstruction, everything marks building destined to endure for cen-turies. One thing only is lacking—decoration equally permanent. The use of concrete, which leaves large plain surfaces, offers a mostappropriate field for painted decoration; and there is surely nothingmore suitable for this purpose than fresco. I mean true fresco on freshplaster. If I thus insist on true fresco on fresh plaster, it is in orderto fix attention upon the true signification of the word. It has becomecustomary to refer to any painted mural decoration as a fresco,whether it be executed in oil, tempera, or wax, or whether it be onplaster or on canvas pasted to the wall. The word fresco is the Italian word

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