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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
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need good, well trainedartists; painting and decorating, modeling for plasterers, the sheetmetal and ornamental iron contractor, stone and marble cutters, furni-ture carvers, wrought iron workers, picture framers, tile manufac-turers, all need arti.sts to do their work. Art should be useful. I hopethat all branches of this section can co-operate to solve this problem offinding useful work for art to do. There is no general broad system of art education. There shouldbe one embracing all art activities into such a whole that the teachingsof the various branches mesh together. This would produce a united,well organized army of workers to which all of the varied branches ofa problem could be assigned, segregated into such units that expertswould give the solution and a monument of perfection evolved. If the Art School could only be developed into a big Art Universityand Forum of Art so that the entire city would become a body of artstudents, then Greece would rise again! FEBRUARY. 1927 57
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KING STREET BRIDGE, HONOLULU. H. T. Hart Wood. Architect PIONEERING IN ARCHITECTURE IN HAWAII By Loraine E. Kuck. FOR over a hundred years Hawaii has known other structure. than the grass houses in which Captain Cook found the natives living when he discovered the "Sandwich Islands". These are now a great rarity, and Hawaii has buildings of practically all the materials used on the mainland, as well as a few peculiar to the islands, such as blocks of coral and lava rock. Most of the older houses were built very simily of wood, without plastering or even papering inside. Frequently these proved not even weather tight in the occasional tropical storms of wind and rain which visit the islands. But inasmuch as these storms are not accompanied by a temperature change from the unvarying balminess, sufficient to require protection, no particular discomfort resulted. I ndesign these older houses were a fairly faithful reflection of their Victorian contemporaries on the mainland, and there was, appare

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